Burning Man: We Started The Fire

Baker Beach, Zone Trip 4, Cacophony, pissed off law, Black Rock Desert, Larry Harvey, Jerry James and TAZ. Kevin Evans, Burn the Man, Danger Ranger’s Peter Pan Crimson Rose, Marian, Seventy-Eight Olds. Electronic music’s here, Turbo Ted’s spinning near, Java Cow, Christmas Camp, Burning Man goes glamp. Will Roger, Center Camp, Harley DuBois, Lit lamps Shooting range, trash fence downrange, everything is now changed! We started all the fires! We weren’t always burning but now we're returning We did start the fire! Yeah we tried to light it And we never fight it. Michael Furey, Papa Satan, Inferno and Hellco, Techno Ghetto, regulation, John Law leaves the nation Fly ranch, Hualapai, Rod Garrett, Sheriff’s eye New Earth Guardians, LNT is hard. Sergey, Larry Page, drama on the back stage, X-Force, DMV, First Regional will now be Piss clear, Best is here, Wheel of Time, Temple Mind Banksy’s art, Jiffy Lube, camels on the playa! We started all the fires! We're forever burning and the Conclave's whirling We did start the fire! Yeah we tried to light it And we never fight it. Theme camps proliferate, Contessa sails straight Principles, Thunderdome, weather makes it hard to roam Angels of Apocalypse, Passage and Colossus Belgian waffle, first moop map, children of the dust clap Addis’s Early Burn, Man Burn, Temple Burn TV Free Burning Man, Big Rig’s no minivan. Bliss Dance, Temple Flux, Dr. Yes’s epochs South Park, Mantfarm, we don’t need no fire alarms! We started all the fires Now the world's learning that we're out there Burning We did start the fire! Yeah we tried to light it And we never fight it. Tickets sellout, Rites of Passage, Temple of Transition Trojan Horse, Pier bestows, Oh the places you’ll go Bank of Un-America, playa dubstep mania, Space saucer, Cargo Cult, DPW catapult! Truth is Beauty, Church Trap, plug n’ plays are bullcrap Embrace hey, rain to play, what else do I have say? We started all the fires Now it's concerning and the community's churning We did start the fire! Yeah we tried to light it And we never fight it. Bug invasion, brutal cold, masturbating nun – bold, Promise Temple, Revolution, Sextant does electrocution White Ocean vandalized, Da Vinci’s work prized, Space Whale, Light House nailed, Catacombs are unveiled Fly Ranch purchase, hot as hell, leftover bikes bombshell Tenere, Hatted man, Aaron’s cut lifespan. Robots I saw bringing awe, Nixon’s under martial law Larry passes, Hexatron, diaper squad, the plane's not gone! We started all the fires We weren’t always burning Now the BLM’s turning We did start the fire! And when we are gone It’ll still burn on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on We started all the fires Turns out we were yearning Now we're always burning We did start the fire! Yeah we tried to light it And we never fight it. We started all the fires We're all still learning we're forever burning We did start the fire! Yeah we tried to light it And we never fight it. A video tracing Burning Man's history with a song I wrote - "We Started The Fire". It's set to the the tune of of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire", and is sung by Jordan Fox. Annotated lyrics and credits at https://burn.life/blog/firestarters Credits for photos and video: Jamen Percy - Some of the drone footage, including the opening shot. Roy Two Thousand - Some time lapses and burn footage. Mark Day - Various pieces of footage of burns. Terry An - Video of the Galaxia burn. Infinit Studios - Footage of the mostly topless woman with a mustache riding a bike. SevenClouds - Some drone footage from 2013. Alex Freeman - Some burn footage. Guy Jackson - Some burn footage. Pete LaMoia - Video of 2013 Man burn. Rick Parker - Video of Veil of Catacombs burn. Afonso Salcedo - Some drone footage of the Temple of Promise. Ahmed Elhusseiny - Some burn footage, and footage of fire dancers. Brad Templeton - Some photos from the late 90s and early 00s. Stewart Harvey - Some photos from the very early years. Duncan Rawlinson - Many photos from the 2010s. Scott Beale - A couple photos from the 00s. ​David Gee - A couple photos from the early 00s. Nick Lynch -Photos from the early years. The Burning Man Project - A number of photos. Danger Ranger - Photos from the early years. Kevin Evans - Several shots of early years. Carvermom - The photo of Java Cow. Malderor - Shooting range photo. Jim Provenzano - A photo of the early Temple. Thomas K. Pendergast - A couple art shots. Andrew Miller - DPW Catapult. Jim Urquhart- Tea ceremony photo. Dustin Mosher - Photo of the 747.