# 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:** 78
**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:** [March 11, 2026, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1541 "2026-03-11T16:12:22Z")
If you think that I don’t know about The little tricks you’ve played And never see you when deliberately You put things in my way Well, here’s a poke at you You’re gonna choke on it, too You’re gonna lose that smile Because all the while I can see for miles and miles I can see for miles and miles I can see for miles and miles And miles and miles and miles Oh, yeah ---
**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:** [March 12, 2026, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1542 "2026-03-12T00:08:45Z")
Baby hair with a woman’s eye I can see you watching in the night Come along with me, and I’ll be waiting for the sunlight When I feel cold, you warm me When I feel I can’t go on, you come and hold me It’s you and me forever Sara smile Won’t you smile awhile for me, Sara? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2026, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1543 "2026-03-12T00:36:10Z")
Said Sara, you’re the poet in my heart Never change, never stop But now it’s gone It doesn’t matter what for But when you build your house Then call me home ---
**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:** [March 12, 2026, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1544 "2026-03-12T00:40:02Z")
You belong to my heart Now and forever And our love had its start Not long ago We were gathering stars While a million guitars Played our love song When I said “I love you” Every beat of my heart said it, too ---
**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:** [March 12, 2026, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1545 "2026-03-12T20:19:53Z")
Seagull carry me, over land and sea To my own folk, that’s where I want to be Every beat of my heart Tears me further apart I’m lost and alone in the dark I’m going home ---
**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:** [March 12, 2026, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1546 "2026-03-12T22:04:02Z")
I’m getting closer to my home (Repeat 26 times) ---
**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:** [March 12, 2026, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1547 "2026-03-12T22:35:23Z")
And the men who hold high places Must be the ones who start To mold a new reality Closer to the heart Closer to the heart ---
**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:** [March 12, 2026, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1548 "2026-03-12T22:55:46Z")
Why do stars fall down from the sky Every time you walk by? Just like me, they long to be Close to you ---
**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:** [March 13, 2026, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1549 "2026-03-13T15:16:19Z")
When you wish upon a star Makes no difference who you are Anything your heart desires Will come to you If your heart is in your dream No request is too extreme When you wish upon a star As dreamers do Fate is kind She brings to those to love The sweet fulfillment of Their secret longing Like a bolt out of the blue Fate steps in and sees you through When you wish upon a star Your dreams come true ---
**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:** [March 13, 2026, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1550 "2026-03-13T15:25:06Z")
I’m malicious, mean and scary My sneer could curdle dairy And violence-wise, my hands are not the cleanest But despite my evil look And my temper and my hook… I’ve always learned to be a concert pianist! Can’t you see me on the stage performing Mozart, Tickling the ivories they gleam? Though I do like breaking femurs You can count me with the dreamers Like everybody else, I’ve got a dream! ---
**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:** [March 13, 2026, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1551 "2026-03-13T15:29:17Z")
Mother knows best Listen to your mother It’s a scary world out there Mother knows best One way or another Something will go wrong, I swear Ruffians, thugs, poison ivy, quicksand Cannibals and snakes, the plague Also large bugs, men with pointy teeth and - Stop, no more, you’ll just upset me ---
**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:** [March 13, 2026, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1552 "2026-03-13T15:30:11Z")
You’d poison a blind man’s dog and steal his cane You’d gift-wrap a leper and mail him to your aunt Jane You’d even force-feed a diabetic a candy cane You can go to hell ---
**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:** [March 13, 2026, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1553 "2026-03-13T15:38:56Z")
You can’t believe all the things I’ve done wrong in my life Without even trying, I’ve lived on the edge of a knife Well, I’ve fought with fire, and I don’t want to get myself burned “To thine own self be true”, so I think that it’s time for a turn Before I burn in Hell See no evil, don’t you speak no evil Don’t you lay no evil down on me You’re gonna burn in Hell Hear no evil, don’t you think no evil Don’t you play with evil, cuz I’m free ---
**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:** [March 13, 2026, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1554 "2026-03-13T15:39:35Z")
Don’t want to go by the devil Don’t want to go by the demon Don’t want to go by Satan Don’t want to die uneasy Just let me go naturally ---
**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:** [March 13, 2026, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1555 "2026-03-13T15:48:12Z")
And it’s 1, 2, 3, what’re we fighting for? Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn Next stop is vietnam And it’s 5, 6, 7, open up the pearly gates Well there ain’t no time to wonder why Whoopee! We’re all gonna die ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1556 "2026-03-13T16:12:48Z")
1, 2, 3, 4 Can I have a little more? 5, 6, 7-8-9-10 I love you ---
**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:** [March 13, 2026, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1557 "2026-03-13T16:41:01Z")
One, two, three, FOAR! I got something to say that might cause you pain If I catch you talking to that boy again I’m gonna let you down and leave you flat Because I told you before, oh, you can’t do that Well, it’s the second time I’ve caught you talking to him Do I have to tell you one more time? I think it’s a sin! I think I’ll let you down, and leave you flat! Because I told you before, oh, you can’t do that ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1558 "2026-03-13T17:57:32Z")
My heart is aching, hands are shaking Bugs are crawling all over me Son of a bitch, give me a drink One more night, this can’t be me Son of a bitch, if I can’t get clean I’m gonna drink my life away ---
**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:** [March 13, 2026, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1559 "2026-03-13T18:48:28Z")
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy There’s vomit on his sweater already; Mom’s spaghetti He’s nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down The whole crowd goes so loud He opens his mouth, but the words won’t come out He’s choking, now; everybody’s joking now The clock’s run out; time’s up, over, BLAU! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2026, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396/1560 "2026-03-13T21:52:40Z")
Cane will cross fade on your ass and bust your eardrums Listen everybody 'cause I’m shifting gears I’m fresh like Dougie when I get my specs And on the microphone, I come correct Timing like a clock when I rock the hip-hop Top notch is my stock on the soapbox I’ve got more rhymes than I’ve got gray hairs And that’s a lot because I’ve got my share (oohh, weee) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=77) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-ve-seen-fire-and-i-ve-seen-rain-3/1020396.md?page=79)