# 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:** 125
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2026, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2481 "2026-10-02T14:54:45Z")
I’m gonna stay right here by your side Do my best to keep you satisfied Nothing in the world can drive me away 'Cause every day you’ll hear me say Baby I’m yours And I’ll be yours until two and two is three Yours until the mountain crumbles to the sea In other words, until eternity ---
**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:** [October 3, 2026, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2482 "2026-10-03T00:49:40Z")
As now can’t reveal the mystery of tomorrow But in passing will grow older every day Just as all is born is new Do know what I say is true That I’ll be loving you always Until the rainbow burns the stars out in the sky (Always) Until the ocean covers every mountain high (Always) Until the dolphin flies and parrots live at sea (Always) Until we dream of life and life becomes a dream ---
**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:** [October 3, 2026, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2483 "2026-10-03T00:57:20Z")
The sand whispered heat and burned the feet Of gulls landing on the shore In the motel pool the waitress cools She doesn’t ask for more She makes a wish she takes a risk She opens up her door Through human eyes she’s a dolphin in disguise It’s the last night of the war ---
**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:** [October 3, 2026, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2484 "2026-10-03T02:26:16Z")
She picks up her apron in little girl-fashion As something comes into her mind Slowly starts dancing remembering her girlhood And all of the boys she had waiting in line Oh, such are the dreams of the everyday housewife You see everywhere any time of the day An everyday housewife who gave up the good life for me ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2485 "2026-10-03T03:44:34Z")
"Things are different today, " I hear every mother say Cooking fresh food for her husband’s just a drag So she buys an instant cake, and she burns a frozen steak And goes running for the shelter of her mother’s little helper And two help her on her way, get her through her busy day ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2486 "2026-10-03T16:23:48Z")
Kind of a drag When your baby don’t love you Kind of a drag When you know she’s been untrue Kind of a Drag _– The Buckinghams_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [October 3, 2026, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2487 "2026-10-03T17:40:39Z")
Hey, little girl, you don’t have to hide nothin’ no more You didn’t do nothin’ that hadn’t been done before Little girl thought she wouldn’t get caught, you see She thought she’d get away with goin’ out on me, yeah Other girls did it, you didn’t think of nothin’ new You went out on me, so other girls did it too ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2488 "2026-10-03T22:43:57Z")
Well, you know that I’m a wicked guy And I was born with a jealous mind And I can’t spend my whole life Trying just to make you toe the line You better run for your life if you can, little girl Hide your head in the sand, little girl Catch you with another man That’s the end, little girl ---
**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:** [October 3, 2026, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2489 "2026-10-03T23:33:59Z")
Oh, go away, little girl. Go away, little girl. It’s hurtin’ me more each minute that you delay. When you are near me like this, You’re much too hard to resist. So, go away, little girl, before I beg you to stay ---
**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:** [October 4, 2026, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2490 "2026-10-04T00:37:10Z")
Well, don’t you want me Don’t you want me Baby, listen 'deed I do I’ll kill your kid sister, I’ll murder your dad I’ll rip the lashes off your eye, I’ll slaughter all your cattle and I’ll burn your crops If you’re dancin’ with another guy. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2491 "2026-10-04T18:41:38Z")
Well she was just seventeen And you know what I mean And the ways she looked Was way beyond compare So how could I dance with another, oh When I saw her standing there ---
**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:** [October 4, 2026, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2492 "2026-10-04T19:07:26Z")
I saw him dancin’ there by the record machine I knew he must’ve been about seventeen The beat was goin’ strong Playin’ my favorite song And I could tell it wouldn’t be long 'Til he was with me, yeah, me And I could tell it wouldn’t be long ‘Til he was with me, yeah, me, singin’ ---
**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:** [October 4, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2493 "2026-10-04T19:15:57Z")
I learned the truth at seventeen That love was meant for beauty queens And high school girls with clear skinned smiles Who married young and then retired The valentines i never knew The Friday night charades of youth Were spent on one more beautiful At seventeen i learned the truth ---
**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:** [October 4, 2026, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2494 "2026-10-04T19:34:10Z")
Lines form on my face and hands Lines form from the ups and downs I’m in the middle without any plans I’m a boy and I’m a man I’m eighteen And I don’t know what I want Eighteen I just don’t know what I want Eighteen I gotta get away I’ve gotta get out of this place I’ll go runnin’ in outer space Oh yeah ---
**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:** [October 4, 2026, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2495 "2026-10-04T19:42:17Z")
In fiery Andromeda will take you Part the immortal sea of stones To blink across the oceans of wonder And never go home Now, it’s drifting in time And out of the haze of gravity So let planets collide You swim in the tide of galaxies Sirius on the right hand of Orion In Ursa Major double lines of bones To step across the blue event horizon And never, and never return ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2496 "2026-10-04T20:33:35Z")
Well, we had a lot of luck on Venus We always had a ball on Mars We meet with all the groovy people We rocked the Milky Way so far Been around with Borealis We’re space truckin’ ‘round the stars Come on, come on, come on Let’s go space truckin’ ---
**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:** [October 4, 2026, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2497 "2026-10-04T21:48:59Z")
There’s Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow There’s Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, Jim Analysis, Mr. Spock It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it, not as we know it It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it, not as we know it, Captain There’s Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow There’s Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, Jim Star Trekkin’ across the universe On the Starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk Star Trekkin’ across the universe Boldly going forward, still can’t find reverse ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2498 "2026-10-04T22:39:54Z")
And we’re banned from Argo every one Banned from Argo just for having a little fun We spent a jolly shore leave there for just three days or four And Argo doesn’t want us anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Casparlatete](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/casparlatete/32/3377_2.png) [@Casparlatete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casparlatete)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2499 "2026-10-05T20:50:28Z")
And I wondered how the same moon outside Over this Chinatown fair Could look down on Illinois And find you there And you know I love you baby And I’m so far away from home And I miss my baby so I can’t make it by myself I love you so Shore leave… Shore leave… ---
**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:** [October 6, 2026, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2500 "2026-10-06T02:52:42Z")
A fine little girl, she waitin’ for me Me catch a ship across the sea Sail that ship, ah, all alone Me never think how I’ll make it home A-Louie, Louie, oh no Said, we gotta go, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Said, a-Louie, Louie, oh baby Said, we gotta go [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=124) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=126)