# 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:** 38
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/741 "2025-09-17T00:40:45Z")
Smile though your heart is aching Smile even though it’s breaking When there are clouds in the sky You’ll get by ---
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/742 "2025-09-17T02:11:19Z")
This is the story of a girl Who cried a river and drowned the whole world And while she looks so sad in photographs I absolutely love her when she smiles ---
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/743 "2025-09-17T02:48:26Z")
Children play in the park, they don’t know I’m alone in the dark, even though Time and time again I see your face smiling inside I’m so happy (oh, oh) That you love me (oh, oh) Life is lovely (woah) When you’re near me Tell me you will stay Make me smile ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/744 "2025-09-17T02:55:45Z")
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof (Because I’m happy) Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth (Because I’m happy) Clap along if you know what happiness is to you (Because I’m happy) Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do ---
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/745 "2025-09-17T12:01:44Z")
I stand here waiting for you to bang the gong To crash the critic saying, “Is it right or is it wrong?” If only fame had an I.V, baby could I bear? Being away from you, I found the vein, put it in here I live for the applause, applause, applause I live for the applause-plause, live for the applause-plause, live for the- Way that you cheer and scream for me The applause, applause, applause ---
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/746 "2025-09-17T12:34:51Z")
Now, just like Sister Ray said I’m searching for my mainline I said I couldn’t hit it sideways Whip it on me Jim, whip it on me Jim, whip it on me Jim Said I couldn’t hit it sideways Oh, do it Now just like… just like Sister Ray said ---
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/747 "2025-09-17T13:42:25Z")
[Can’t resist the fat one right down the middle, going, going, gone…] Now whip it Into shape Shape it up Get straight Go forward Move ahead Try to detect it It’s not too late To whip it Whip it good! ---
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/748 "2025-09-17T16:08:43Z")
The buzzard told the monkey, "You are choking me “Release your hold, and I will set you free” The monkey looked the buzzard right dead in the eye; said “Your story’s so touching but it sounds like a lie” Straighten up and fly right Straighten up and stay right Straighten up and fly right Cool down, Papa, don’t you blow your top ---
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/749 "2025-09-17T16:23:41Z")
Once upon a time there was an engineer Drove a locomotive both far and near Accompanied by a monkey who would sit on a stool Watching everything the engineer would move ---
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/750 "2025-09-17T16:30:43Z")
The walls are built up, stone by stone; The fields divided one by one. And the train conductor says, “Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break We’ve been on this shift too long” And the train conductor says, “Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break We can reach our destination, but it’s still a ways away” ---
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/751 "2025-09-17T17:50:03Z")
Cause [out on the edge of darkness](https://genius.com/8312639/Cat-stevens-peace-train/Out-on-the-edge-of-darkness) There rides a peace train [Oh, peace train take this country Come take me home again](https://genius.com/8312642/Cat-stevens-peace-train/Oh-peace-train-take-this-country-come-take-me-home-again) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/752 "2025-09-17T18:20:40Z")
And I’ve been riding on a ghost train Where the cars, they scream and slam And I don’t know where I’ll be tonight But I’d always tell you where I am ---
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/753 "2025-09-17T19:55:12Z")
Underground the ants are riding in the subways They’re facing faces that they’ve never faced before They lean against the doors although the sign says not to 57th Street, the shoppers walking sideways High-heeled women like flamingos on a beach Their dreams are in their reach inside Think about it all and it gets scary I tend to freeze up at the starting line In my head’s a rhyming dictionary It ain’t poetic but it’s still A beautiful place ---
**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:** [September 17, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/754 "2025-09-17T21:43:21Z")
If you see something that looks like a star And it’s shooting up out of the ground And your head is spinning from a loud guitar And you just can’t escape from the sound Don’t worry too much, it’ll happen to you We were children once, playing with toys And the thing that you’re hearing is only the sound of The low spark of high-heeled boys ---
**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:** [September 18, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/755 "2025-09-18T00:28:36Z")
Put on your hi-heel sneakers Wear your wig hat on your head Put on your hi-heel sneakers Wear your wig hat on your head And I’m pretty sure now, baby Don’t you know you know you gonna knock 'em dead ---
**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:** [September 18, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/756 "2025-09-18T01:06:24Z")
Hey driver, where we going? I swear, my nerves are showing Set my hopes up way too high Living’s in the way we die Comes the morning, and the headlights fade away Hundred thousand people, I’m the one they frame I’ve been waiting long for one of us to say Save the darkness, let it never fade away Oh, the living daylights Oh, the living daylights ---
**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:** [September 18, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/757 "2025-09-18T01:07:49Z")
But oh how it feels so real Lying here with no one near Only you and you can hear me When I say softly, slowly Hold me closer tiny dancer Count the headlights on the highway Lay me down in sheets of linen You had a busy day today ---
**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:** [September 18, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/758 "2025-09-18T01:32:09Z")
Upon this time-trapped isle Where time has ceased to be If you must know why, you’d better pay heed to me This is a place so cruel across a darkened sea You would be a fool to come and challenge me You never will escape, no matter what you try to do If you try to run away, we’ll turn you into barbecue Don’t stand around and wait, no one will listen to your cries You will meet your date while on this time-trapped isle ---
**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:** [September 18, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/759 "2025-09-18T15:22:43Z")
…here on Gilligan’s isle! ---
**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:** [September 18, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/760 "2025-09-18T16:22:36Z")
Wait a minute, I know who you are! You’re the citizens of the neighborhood What the hell are you trying to do to me? You’re making me brain-damaged, all these people hanging around my head It’s the Island of Living Puke, you asshole It’s the Island of Living Puke, you asshole [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=37) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=39)