# 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:** 394
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7863 "2024-08-07T15:03:08Z")
Ooh, baby, I love your way, every day, yeah I wanna tell you I love your way, every day, yeah I wanna be with you night and day ---
**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:** [August 7, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7864 "2024-08-07T15:16:50Z")
And who makes me feel like smiling When the weary day is through? You baby, no one but you, baby, nobody but you You baby, no one but you, baby, nobody but you ---
**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:** [August 7, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7865 "2024-08-07T20:42:05Z")
My baby takes the morning train He works from nine till five and then He takes another home again To find me waitin’ for him ---
**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:** [August 7, 2024, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7866 "2024-08-07T20:44:23Z")
I hear that whistle blowin’ ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7867 "2024-08-08T04:03:36Z")
Just a steel town girl on a Saturday night Lookin’ for the fight of her life In the real-time world no one sees her at all They all say she’s crazy Locking rhythms to the beat of her heart Changing movement into light She has danced into the danger zone When the dancer becomes the dance It can cut you like a knife, if the gift becomes the fire On a wire between will and what will be ---
**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:** [August 8, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7868 "2024-08-08T12:45:47Z")
Sittin’ in the porch swing Listenin’ to the light rain Beatin’ on the tin roof Baby, just me and you Rockin’ with the rhythm of the rain ---
**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:** [August 8, 2024, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7869 "2024-08-08T14:36:05Z")
Her brother was on the sofa eatin’ chocolate pie Her mama was in the kitchen cuttin’ chicken up to fry Her daddy was in the backyard rollin’ up a garden hose I was on the porch with Charlotte feelin’ love down to my toes And we were swingin’ (swingin’) Yeah, just a-swingin’ (swingin’) Little Charlotte she’s as pretty as the angels when they sing I can’t believe I’m out here on her front porch in this swing A-swingin’ (swingin’) ---
**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:** [August 8, 2024, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7870 "2024-08-08T14:36:23Z")
Daddy sits on a front porch swinging Looking out on a vacant field Used to be filled with burley t’bacca Now he knows it never will My Brothers found work in Indiana M’ Sisters a nurse at the old folks home Mama still cooking too much for supper And me I’ve been a long time gone Been a long time gone No, I ain’t hoed a row since I don’t know when Long time gone And it ain’t coming back again ---
**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:** [August 8, 2024, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7871 "2024-08-08T14:38:20Z")
Mama’s in the factory She ain’t got no shoes Daddy’s in the alley lookin’ for the fuse I’m in the kitchen with the tombstone blues ---
**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:** [August 8, 2024, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7872 "2024-08-08T17:24:27Z")
Johnny’s in the basement mixin’ up the medicine I’m on the pavement, thinkin’ about the government The man in the trench coat, badge out, laid off Says he’s got a bad cough, wants to get it paid off ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7873 "2024-08-09T14:24:21Z")
Johnny’s in America Ah-ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah-ah Johnny wants a brain, Johnny wants to suck on a coke Johnny wants a woman, Johnny wants to think of a joke Ah-ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah-ah Johnny’s in America (ah-ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah-ah) ---
**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:** [August 9, 2024, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7874 "2024-08-09T14:48:59Z")
Living in America (ow) Eye to eye, station to station Living in America Hand in hand, across the nation Living in America Got to have a celebration ---
**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:** [August 9, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7875 "2024-08-09T18:52:55Z")
Flew in from Miami Beach B.O.A.C Didn’t get to bed last night On the way the paper bag was on my knee Man, I had a dreadful flight I’m back in the U.S.S.R You don’t know how lucky you are, boy Back in the U.S.S.R ---
**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:** [August 9, 2024, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7876 "2024-08-09T21:37:23Z")
Last night I watched the news from Washington, the Capitol The Russians escaped while we weren’t watching them Like Russians will Now we’ve got all this room, we’ve even got the moon And I hear the U.S.S.R will be open soon A vacation land for lawyers in love ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7877 "2024-08-10T05:03:56Z")
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline Ayatollah’s in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan ---
**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:** [August 10, 2024, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7878 "2024-08-10T05:21:37Z")
Tin soldiers and Nixon’s comin’ We’re finally on our own This summer I hear the drummin’ Four dead in Ohio Gotta get down to it, soldiers are gunning us down Should have been done long ago What if you knew her and found her dead on the ground How can you run when you know? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2024, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7879 "2024-08-10T14:37:35Z")
I went back to Ohio But my city was gone There was no train station There was no downtown South Howard had disappeared All my favorite places My city had been pulled down Reduced to parking spaces Ay, oh, way to go, Ohio ---
**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:** [August 10, 2024, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7880 "2024-08-10T17:17:50Z")
Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got 'til it’s gone They paved paradise, put up a parking lot (Ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop, ooh, bop-bop-bop-bop) ---
**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:** [August 10, 2024, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7881 "2024-08-10T17:29:55Z")
Since you’re gone The nights are gettin’ strange Since you’re gone Well, nothing’s makin’ sense Since you’re gone I stumble in the shade Since you’re gone Everything’s in perfect tense, well I can’t help it When you fall apart And I can’t help it Guess you better start ---
**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:** [August 10, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/7882 "2024-08-10T19:08:03Z")
I got a girlfriend that’s better than this But you don’t remember at all As we get older and stop making sense You won’t find her waiting long Stop making sense, stop making sense Stop making sense, making sense I got a girlfriend, she’s better than that And nothing is better than this (is it?) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=393) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=395)