Those of us who'd recently been bonked on the noggin by a falling coconut were like, "Huh? When did that happen? No...that doesn't sound familiar at all. Are you sure he isn't just making this up?"
As I understand it, the CIA suppressed the original version of the song which has an additional verse where he lists events that would occur after 1989 with unnerving accuracy. Also the snare is much louder
Ron Howard in 1989: “They keep saying they didn’t start the fire, what if there were someone who DID start the fire. I bet I could turn that into a movie!”
If you use your CD player rewind button to go to 3 minutes before the start of the album, there are extra verses about the Teapot Dome Scandal & etc. sung by a megaphone crooner
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Seventh Heaven
George Bush will do 9/11
Grunge rock
Skateboards, Tony Hawk
Promptly knocked down the towers ...
Jet fuel was the fire but it can't melt steel the deep state is a liar..."
https://youtu.be/2LkVKCWL0U4
Things have been happening for a WHILE now.
Billy Joel says “don’t look at me.”
Billy Joel denies culpability, ironically even as he stands in front of the rising flames, making NO effort to extinguish them.
It was eight years later when the culprit finally came forward to confess.