# I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain 3 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 2, 2025, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396 "2025-07-02T12:26:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/221 "2025-07-19T19:32:30Z")
Well, I’ve been waitin’ ever since eight Guess my baby’s got another date Stood up, broken-hearted, again I’ll bet she’s out havin’ a ball Not even thinkin’ of me at all Stood up, broken-hearted, again Well, I know just what I oughta do I oughta find somebody new But, baby, I couldn’t forget about you Stood up, broken-hearted, again ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/222 "2025-07-19T19:39:00Z")
I can think of younger days When living for my life Was everything a man could want to do I could never see tomorrow I was never told about the sorrow And how can you mend a broken heart? How can you stop the rain falling down? Tell me how can you stop the sun from shining? What makes the world go 'round? ---
**Author:** ![llikewise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llikewise/32/8522_2.png) [@llikewise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/llikewise)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/223 "2025-07-19T20:38:19Z")
Your day breaks, your mind aches There will be times when all the things she said will fill your head You won’t forget her And in her eyes you see nothing No sign of love behind the tears Cried for no one A love that should have lasted years ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/224 "2025-07-19T20:42:31Z")
Mm, I’ve been a crocodile my whole life I try to fit in, but I always stand out My claws are too sharp My thoughts are too dark And I keep eating all of my friends Whoa She’s crying alone The deceitful crocodile in the Nile Crocodile tears are falling down my face I want you to cry for me I want you to be sorry For the things that you’ve done ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/225 "2025-07-19T21:22:48Z")
Oh, lawdy, Mama Those Friday nights… Susie woman dressed up right.. Crocodile rockin’ was out-of-sight… ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/226 "2025-07-20T00:39:19Z")
Down in Louisiana, where the alligators grow so mean Lived a girl, that I swear to the world Made the alligators look tame Polk salad Annie, gators got your granny Everybody said it was a shame Because her momma was a workin’ on the chain gang ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/227 "2025-07-20T00:49:14Z")
See the alligator all a-waitin’ nearby Sooner or later, they know I’m gonna try When she waved from the bank, don’t you know I know? It’s a-goodbye, fishin’ line, see you while I go With a Louisiana woman waitin’ on the other side The Mississippi River don’t look so wide ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/228 "2025-07-20T00:55:46Z")
Sleepy alligator in the noon day sun, Lyin’ by the river just like he usually done. Call for his whiskey, he can call for his tea, Call all he want to, but he can’t call for me. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/229 "2025-07-20T21:41:19Z")
Call me (call me) my love Call me, call me any, anytime Call me (call me) for a ride Call me, call me for some overtime Call me (call me) in my life Call me, call me in a sweet design Call me (call me), call me for your lover’s, lover’s alibi Call me (call me) on the line Call me, call me any, anytime Call me (call me) ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/230 "2025-07-20T21:48:13Z")
Walk the dark path Sleep with angels Call the past for help Touch me with your love And reveal to me my true name Oh how I wish For soothing rain All I wish is to dream again My loving heart Lost in the dark For hope I’d give my everything Oh how I wish For soothing rain Oh how I wish to dream again Once and for all And all for once Nemo my name forevermore ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/231 "2025-07-20T21:54:04Z")
She wasn’t perfect She had some trips of her own He wasn’t worried At least he wasn’t alone Too late He sleeps with angels Too soon He’s always on someone’s mind He sleeps with angels Too late He sleeps with angels Too soon ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2025, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/232 "2025-07-20T21:54:18Z")
They call me hell They call me Stacey They call me Her They call me Jane That’s not my name That’s not my name That’s not my name That’s not my name They call me quiet But I’m a riot Mary-Jo-Lisa Always the same That’s not my name That’s not my name That’s not my name That’s not my name ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/233 "2025-07-21T01:45:50Z")
Like the pine trees lining the winding road I got a name, I got a name Like the singing bird and the croaking toad I got a name, I got a name And I carry it with me like my daddy did But I’m living the dream that he kept hid Like the north wind whistling down the sky I’ve got a song, I’ve got a song Like the whippoorwill and the phoebe’s\* cry I’ve got a song, I’ve got a song And I carry it with me and I sing it loud If it gets me nowhere, I go there proud * * * [\*Before someone chimes in, I know all the lyric sites insist “baby”, but they’re all wrong, Croce would never have paired a bird with a human infant, but with another bird.] ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/234 "2025-07-21T03:46:45Z")
White bird In a golden cage On a winter’s day In the rain White bird In a golden cage Alone The leaves blow Across the long, black road To the darkened skies In it’s rage But the white bird Just sits in her cage Unknown ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/235 "2025-07-21T05:11:51Z")
If you take a life, do you know what you give? Odds are, you won’t like what it is If the storm arrives, will you be seen with me? By the merciless eyes, I’m deceived I’ve seen angels fall from blinding heights But you, yourself, are nothing so divine You’re just next in line! Arm yourself, because no one else here will save you! The odds will repay you, and I will replace you You can’t deny the prize; it may never fulfill you It longs to kill you; are you ready to die? The coldest blood runs through my veins You know my name ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/236 "2025-07-21T12:25:46Z")
She paints her eyes as black as night now Pulls those shades down tight Yeah, she gives a smile when the pain come The pain gonna make everything alright Says she talks to angels They call her out by her own name Oh, yeah, she talks to angels Says they call her out by her own name ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/237 "2025-07-21T12:41:54Z")
Rescued by the first light Receiving us with these tears Feeling your gaze in the back of my eyes Leaving worlds this way Seeing out the angels From the shadows of a day That stands alone and crying young Singing fascination For the twist in anxious days That stand alone and crying young Seeing out the angels From the restive pools of life That stand alone and crying young ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/238 "2025-07-21T20:12:35Z")
Angel came down from heaven yesterday She stayed with me just long enough to rescue me And she told me a story yesterday About the sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea And then she spread her wings, high over me She said she is going to come back tomorrow ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/239 "2025-07-21T21:09:21Z")
“You know who I am,” he said The speaker was an angel He coughed and shook his crumpled wings Closed his eyes and moved his lips “It’s time we should be going” ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/240 "2025-07-21T23:41:22Z")
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