# I've seen fire and I've seen rain 2 (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [June 23, 2020, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254 "2020-06-23T04:29:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 385
**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 15, 2024, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7683 "2024-07-15T12:34:53Z")
Oh Susanna, don’t you cry, baby Love’s a gift that’s surely handmade We got somethin’ to believe in Don’t you think it’s time we’re leavin’? If I can just get off of this LA freeway Without gettin’ killed or caught I’ll be down the road in a cloud of smoke To some land I ain’t bought, bought, bought ---
**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 15, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7684 "2024-07-15T15:47:22Z")
We gotta get out of this place If it’s the last thing we ever do We gotta get out of this place Girl, there’s a better life for me and you Believe me baby I know it baby You know it too ---
**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 15, 2024, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7685 "2024-07-15T17:28:46Z")
Running just as fast as we can Holdin’ on to one another’s hand Tryin’ to get away into the night And then you put your arms around me And we tumble to the ground And then you say ---
**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 15, 2024, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7686 "2024-07-15T17:48:21Z")
Running hard towards what used to be Losing ground in changes sliding endlessly Reaching out for mirrors hidden in the web Painting lines upon your face inside instead ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7687 "2024-07-15T18:46:21Z")
She walks through the streets With her eyes painted red Under a black belly of cloud in the rain In through a doorway She brings me white golden pearls Stolen from the sea She is ragin’, she is ragin’ And the storm blows up in her eyes She will suffer the needle chill She’s running to stand still ---
**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:** [July 16, 2024, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7688 "2024-07-16T01:00:45Z")
The needle tears a hole The old familiar sting Try to kill it all away But I remember everything Hurt – _Johnny Cash_ _(although originally written and performed by Trent Rezner and Nine Inch Nails, it’s become as connected with country legend Johnny Cash as ‘Ring of Fire’, ‘Folsom Prison Blues’, or ‘A Boy Named Sue’)_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [July 16, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7689 "2024-07-16T15:09:12Z")
I’ll remember you When I’ve forgotten all the rest You to me were true You to me were the best ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7690 "2024-07-16T15:39:25Z")
I will remember you Will you remember me? Don’t let your life pass me by Weep not for the memories ---
**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 16, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7691 "2024-07-16T15:47:05Z")
I got no means to show identification I got no papers show you what I am You’ll have to take me just the way that you find me What’s gone is gone and I do not give a damn Empty stomach, empty head I got empty heart and empty bed I don’t remember I don’t remember ---
**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 16, 2024, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7692 "2024-07-16T15:49:15Z")
Now I know just what to do Feign amnesia How I wish it wasn’t true Wish it wasn’t true right now I’ll look busy just for you And feign amnesia How I wish it wasn’t true Wish it wasn’t true right now ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7693 "2024-07-17T03:14:18Z")
It’s not the way you look, it’s not the way that you smile Although there’s something to them It’s not the way you have your hair, it’s not that certain style It could be that perfume If I had a photograph of you Or something to remind me I wouldn’t spend my life just wishing ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2024, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7694 "2024-07-17T03:14:47Z")
If I had ever been here before I would probably know just what to do Don’t you? If I had ever been here before on another time around the wheel I would probably know just how to deal With all of 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:** [July 17, 2024, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7695 "2024-07-17T12:13:54Z")
Ever had the feeling you’ve been here before? Drinking down the poison the way you were taught Ever thought from here on in your life begins And all you knew was wrong? Arriving somewhere but not here ---
**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:** [July 17, 2024, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7696 "2024-07-17T15:34:34Z")
I said, now, watch what you say, they’ll be calling you a radical A liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal Oh, won’t you sign up your name? We’d like to feel you’re acceptable Respectable, oh, presentable, a vegetable ---
**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 17, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7697 "2024-07-17T15:38:17Z")
You don’t worry about the things that you used to be You’re a rag-trade girl, you’re the queen of porn You’re the easiest lay on the White House lawn Get out of my life, don’t come back Get out of my life, don’t come back She’s so respectable ---
**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 17, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7698 "2024-07-17T15:47:59Z")
You’re so deluxe, you’re so divine You’re so fifty light years ahead of your time You’re a riddle, you’re a ripple You’re the human sacrifice to the goddess of ice Your hairdo is full of diamonds and lice And you’re hardly off the nipple ---
**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:** [July 17, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7699 "2024-07-17T16:14:37Z")
(Cold as ice) You know that you are (Cold as ice) As cold as ice to 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 17, 2024, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7700 "2024-07-17T16:22:21Z")
And he’s oh, so good And he’s oh, so fine And he’s oh, so healthy In his body and his mind He’s a well respected man about town Doing the best things so conservatively ---
**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 17, 2024, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7701 "2024-07-17T16:27:36Z")
So you stand on the corner in your New English clothes And you look so polished from your hair down to your toes Oh, but still your fingers gonna pick your nose after all, hmm But Captain Jack will get you high tonight And take you to your special island Captain Jack will get you by tonight Just a little push, and you’ll be smilin’, oh Oh, yeah-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:** [July 17, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7702 "2024-07-17T16:29:14Z")
The bell has been raised From its watery grave Do you hear its sepulchral tone? We are a call to all Pay heed the squall And turn your sail toward home Yo, ho, all together Hoist the colours high Heave ho, thieves and beggars Never shall we die [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=384) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=386)