# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 129
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2026, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2561 "2026-10-23T06:24:01Z")
Well, I think I’m goin’ out of my head Yes, I think I’m goin’ out of my head Over you, over you I want you to want me, I need you so badly I can’t think of anything but you And I think I’m goin’ out of my head Yes, I think I’m goin’ out of my head Over you, over you ---
**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 23, 2026, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2562 "2026-10-23T14:06:32Z")
Bank job in the city. Robin Hood and William Tell and Ivanhoe and Lancelot They don’t envy me. Sitting till the sun goes down, In dreams the world keep going round and round. And I can’t get it out of my head, No, I can’t get it out of my head. Now my old world is gone for dead 'Cos I can’t get it out of my head, no no. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2026, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2563 "2026-10-23T16:13:25Z")
What if I were Romeo in black jeans What if I was Heathcliff, it’s no myth Maybe she’s just looking for Someone to dance with ---
**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 23, 2026, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2564 "2026-10-23T20:39:56Z")
Findin’ a job tomorrow mornin’ Got a little somethin’ I wanna do Gonna buy (gonna buy) somethin’ I could ride in I take my girl (take my girl) dating at the drive-in Our love’s gonna be written down in history Ah-just like Romeo and Juliet ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2026, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2565 "2026-10-24T01:13:04Z")
Come up on different streets, they both were streets of shame Both dirty, both mean, yes, and the dream was just the same And I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals? When you can fall for chains of silver you can fall for chains of gold You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin, yeah Now you just say “oh, Romeo, yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him” ---
**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 24, 2026, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2566 "2026-10-24T01:17:00Z")
Romeo and the lonely girl They seemed to hit it off Till Romeo told the lonely girl “I must take my leave, my love” It was these few words I overheard And thought, “I would move in” But before I could the lonely girl Had fallen in love again ---
**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 24, 2026, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2567 "2026-10-24T20:00:43Z")
Hey there lonely girl, lonely girl Let me make your broken heart like new Hey there lonely girl, lonely girl Don’t you know this lonely boy loves you Hey There Lonely Girl – _Eddie Holman_ Released in 1969, this was basically a gender-switched cover of the 1963 song, _Hey There Lonely Boy_, by Ruby and the Romantics _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2026, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2568 "2026-10-24T22:11:21Z")
He was born on a summer day 1951 And with a slap of a hand He landed as an only son His mother and father said what a lovely boy We’ll teach him what we learned Ah yes just what we learned We’ll dress him up warmly and We’ll send him to school It’ll teach him how to fight To be nobody’s fool Oh, oh what a lonely boy Oh what a lonely boy Oh what a lonely boy ---
**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 25, 2026, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2569 "2026-10-25T01:29:44Z")
Lonely, I’m Mr. Lonely I have nobody for my own I’m so lonely, I’m Mr. Lonely Wish I had someone to call on the phone I’m a soldier, a lonely soldier Away from home through no wish of my own That’s why I’m lonely, I’m Mr. Lonely I wish that I could go back home ---
**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 25, 2026, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2570 "2026-10-25T01:44:56Z")
Everybody’s had the blues One time or other everbody listen to me, You loose somebody you love, But that’s no reason for you to break down and cry! I said a hey everybody! Everybody! Everybody’s had a lonely moment! Everybody! Everybody! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2026, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/2571 "2026-10-25T17:21:21Z")
You all, everybody You all, everybody Acting like you’re stupid people Wearing expensive clothes [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=128)