2020 Was A Dumpster Fire - We Didn’t Start The Fire Parody
I was originally going to turn this into a Youtube video, but it ended up being more work than I was really ready to tackle, and it was not ‘sparking joy’, so I decided to abandon the project. However, I had already written up the lyrics for the parody, so I decided I would just post them on here. Note: I ended up adding verses and lines to one of the verses so I could fit everything in that I wanted to say, and I still didn’t cover everything that happened in this fucking year. Hope you enjoy
Protests in Hong Kong, riots in India
Persian Gulf Crisis, a general is dead
Yemen and Libya Civil War, fires in Australia
Taliban peace treaty, disease starting to spread
Boris Johnson is a clown, Britain’s on it’s own now
World war three drawing closer, and Kobe died
Volcanoes erupting, Impeachment trial, Tiger King
And why did Mr. Peanut have to say goodbye?
2020 was a dumpster fire
It was doomed to burn
When the year first turned
2020 was a dumpster fire
Can’t believe we made it
Was 12 months I hated
The Senate acquits Trump, Quarantine, no testing
And now we have to deal with the CoronaVirus
England still has their queen, Meghan and Harry are leaving
Global disasters rage as the temperature rises
States of emergency, Houston has a cheating team
Stock market crash and New planet discovery
Same-sex marriage in Ireland, social distance, travel banned
People hoarding toilet paper, sports canceled temporarily
2020 was a dumpster fire
It was doomed to burn
When the year first turned
2020 was a dumpster fire
I can’t believe we made it
Was 12 months I hated
Weinstein is guilty, lockdown in Italy
Summer Olympics postponed, US election year
Syria Civil War, fires in California
People are starting to die, Pope Francis livestream
UFO videos, murder hornets, black holes
Black Lives Matter, more fires, we’re still in June
Flash floods, hurricanes, cyclones, so much rain
What do you mean there’s a crack on the moon?
2020 was a dumpster fire
It was doomed to burn
When the year first turned
2020 was a dumpster fire
I can’t believe we made it
Was 12 months I hated
African locust swarm, Ebola’s back, Parasite won
Title IX rehaul, Austria shooting spree
Gay marriage in Costa Rica, brain eating amoeba
Don’t let Grimes and Elon name babies
Earthquakes, no handshakes, Twitter scams with high stakes
Immigration, Trump labeled "antifa" a terrorist organization
*dead silence while I ponder what the fuck this world has come to*
2020 was a dumpster fire
It was doomed to burn
When the year first turned
2020 was a dumpster fire
I can’t believe we made it
Was 12 months I hated
Death of RBG, School starting back virtually
Longest living Pope, Protests in Thailand
Chadwick Bozemen dead, we just can’t get ahead
Kim Jong Un death rumors and his sister was stanned
Beirut explosion, Lake Michigan erosion
Trump has Corona, Eddie Van Halen died
Mars 2020 rover goes, Africa free of polio
Prince Charles of Luxembourg, We might have a vaccine
2020 was a dumpster fire
It was doomed to burn
When the year first turned
2020 was a dumpster fire
I can’t believe we made it
Was 12 months I hated
Who will win, election night, Georgia flipping, what a sight
Destiel became canon before our president
Doesn’t matter anyway, speedrun bury your gays
Then the actors almost died in an accident
Widest voter turnout in history, Trump calling early
Bolivian President attacked with dynamite
Nevada get your shit together, Putin resignation rumor
Ted Bundy artist, Alex Trebek died
Kill all the mink in Denmark, it’s Grittney bitch, stop the count
Four Seasons Total Landscaping, Election over
Georgia and Pennsylvania flipped blue, Trump is gonna sue
*music stops* and all this happened in the FIRST GODDAMN WEEK OF NOVEMBER
*moment of silence for my sanity*
2020 was a dumpster fire
It was doomed to burn
When the year first turned
2020 was a dumpster fire
I can’t believe we made it
Was 12 months I hated
John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant, Joe Biden is our President
Over 75 million sick, Over 1.5 million dead
Most active hurricane season, US exited the Paris Agreement
Ratatouille on Broadway, and Darth Vader dead
Covid reached Antarctica, Casey Goodson, Unus Annus
Y yo a ti, Cas; Zodiac killer cipher solved
Sean Connery died, Aliens are real according to the Israeli guy
Exploding RV in Nashville, we can’t take it anymore!
2020 was a dumpster fire
It was doomed to burn
When the year first turned
2020 was a dumpster fire
Let just hope we don’t have to go
Through this in twenty twenty-one, ne-one (x like 9 or something)
2020 was a dumpster fire
It was doomed to burn
When the year first turned
2020 was a dumpster fire
I can’t believe we made it
Was 12 months I hated
2020 was a dumpster fire
It was doomed to burn
When the year first turned
2020 was a dumpster fire
I can’t believe we made it
Was 12 months I hated
2020 was a dumpster fire
It was doomed to burn
When the year first turned
2020 was a dumpster fire
I can’t believe we made it
Was 12 months I hated
The rhyme scheme of this song was a bitch to try and get right. Technically, it changes for the last verse, but I had already more or less written it, and I didn’t feel like messing with it, so I just said ‘fuck it’ and went with what the rhyme scheme for the rest of the song was.
Not everything that happened this year was bad, but, man, it was a year. I’m American, so what happened was very America centric, but I tried to branch out and be international with what was going on. Even with the extra verse and extra lines, I still didn’t manage to get everything. One of the most recent developments that I just wasn’t able to include is that abortion is now legal in Argentina, whoo whoo.
