1.01.2015

There Goes Another Year

With a nod (and apologies) to Billy Joel and his 1989 hit, "We Didn't Start The Fire":


Breaking Bad, breaking news, Toronto mayor likes his booze
Blood moon, green means go, big screen super hero
Zip line, flim flam, Twitter, Instagram
Kardashians on a TV show, say goodbye Jay Leno


Russia on the move, Pharrell hits a groove
Frozen fractals alert, Miley does a twerk
Walking Dead, flu shot, legalization of pot
Home or work, that NSA sure likes to lurk

There goes another year
Will we ever start learning
While the world keeps turning
There goes another year
No, we didn’t stop it
Next year will we top it?

iPhone, Android, Ms. Obama looks annoyed
Skimpy school lunch for the kids, magnets on your fridge
England’s queen still has her crown, Israel stands it’s ground
All kept under the lids ‘cause the news loved Chris Christie and a bridge

Winter Olympic games, politicians call each other names
Game of Thrones, give a quarter, open border
Minimum wage, double time, Keystone Pipeline
Oh no, is that a goiter, no, on my TV it’s another hoarder!

There goes another year
Will we ever start learning
While the world keeps turning
There goes another year
No, we didn’t stop it
Next year will we top it?

Ferguson, gas fracking, Peyton Manning, hackers hacking
Bacon, eggs, green beans, guess what Jonathan Gruber really means
Daily Show, Lois Lerner, her emails got thrown in the burner
The Pisa tower still leans, Obama plays one more round on the greens

Hobby Lobby, tort, retort, goes to the Supreme Court
Arctic blast, CNN cuts Piers, rumors and smears
Spacecraft on a comet, if we got closer we might could bomb it
Out of nowhere come the fears when a Malaysian flight just disappears

There goes another year
Will we ever start learning
While the world keeps turning
There goes another year
No, we didn’t stop it
Next year will we top it?

War on women, we can’t be friends, rhetoric never ends
Wireless net, kick the can, two hundred dollars to see a band
Hollywood is full of tripe, still we’re caught up in the hype
How much can we stand, beheadings in the sand?

Ebola, big soda, Nicki Minaj, Jay Z, CDC
Robin Williams and his fate, at the White House you can jump the gate
e-cig, Snapchat, does this shirt make me look fat
No matter what the rate, so many people still gotta hate

There goes another year
Will we ever start learning
While the world keeps turning
There goes another year
No, we didn’t stop it
Next year will we top it?

Election time, morals bereft, more and more ID theft
Pick your nose, pick a daisy, North Korea’s just a bit hazy
National budget has it’s heft, who will pay, will anybody be left
More and more of us get lazy or is everyone going crazy?

Movie star, hot dog bun, take away your gun
China owns all our loans, watch out here comes a drone
It all makes you want to run, being grown isn’t always fun
We’re wired but still alone, makes us long for home sweet home.

There goes another year
Will we ever start learning
While the world keeps turning
There goes another year
No, we didn’t stop it
Next year will we top it?

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