# 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:** 443
**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:** [January 27, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8843 "2025-01-27T22:21:06Z")
I met a gin-soaked bar-room queen in Memphis She tried to take me upstairs for a ride She had to heave me right across her shoulder 'Cause I just can’t seem to drink you off my mind ---
**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:** [January 27, 2025, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8844 "2025-01-27T22:35:30Z")
If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will I can’t hold out much longer, the way that I feel With the blood from my body, I could start my own still But if drinking don’t kill me, her memory will ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8845 "2025-01-28T01:40:58Z")
Saw the demonstration On Remembrance Day Lest we forget the lesson Enshrined in funeral clay History is never written By those who’ve lost The defeated must bear witness to Our collective memory loss ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8846 "2025-01-28T01:46:12Z")
And I went down to the demonstration To get my fair share of abuse Singing, “We’re gonna vent our frustration If we don’t we’re gonna blow a fifty-amp fuse” Sing it to me, honey You can’t always get what you want You can’t always get what you want You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometimes, well, you just might find You get what you need Ah baby, yeah ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8847 "2025-01-28T02:00:47Z")
Now, I go down to Speaker’s Corner, I’m thunderstruck They got free speech tourists, police in trucks Two men say they’re Jesus, one of them must be wrong There’s a protest singer, he’s singing a protest song He says, "They wanna have a war, keep their factories They wanna have a war to keep us on our knees They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese They wanna have a war to stop industrial disease They’re pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind They wanna sap your energy, incarcerate your mind Give ya ‘Rule Britannia’, gassy beer, page three Two weeks in España and Sunday striptease" Meanwhile, the first Jesus says “I’ll cure it soon Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons” The other one’s out on hunger strike, he’s dying by degrees How come Jesus gets industrial disease? ---
**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:** [January 28, 2025, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8848 "2025-01-28T14:24:49Z")
They amplified the autumn, nineteen seventy-nine. Calculate the capital, up the republic my skinny ass. TV tells a million lies. The paper’s terrified to report Anything that isn’t handed on a presidential spoon, I’m just profoundly frustrated by all this. So, fuck you, man. (Fuck 'em) Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2025, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8849 "2025-01-29T03:29:12Z")
I make my living off the evening news Just give me something, something I can use People love it when you lose, they love dirty laundry Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here I just have to look good, I don’t have to be clear Come and whisper in my ear, give us dirty laundry ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8850 "2025-01-29T03:36:36Z")
Careless in our summer clothes splashing around In the muck and the mire Careless in our summer clothes splashing around In the muck and the mire Fell asleep with stains Caked deep in the knees What a pain Now hang me up to dry You wrung me out Too too too many times Now hang me up to dry I’m pearly like the whites The whites of your eyes ---
**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:** [January 29, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8851 "2025-01-29T14:03:08Z")
The deacon walks by a dollar hits the plate Tryin’ to buy self a ticket to the pearly gates Old sister Rose on the very first row been a sittin’ right there twenty years or so Never hears a word when the preacher speaks Too busy talkin’ bout the bad girl down the street Saturday Satan, Sunday saint… ---
**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:** [January 29, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8852 "2025-01-29T18:53:38Z")
If I go to church on Sunday Then cabaret all day Monday Ain’t nobody’s business if I do ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8853 "2025-01-29T20:08:17Z")
Never gonna fall for (Modern love) walks beside me (Modern love) walks on by (Modern love) gets me to the church on time (Church on time) terrifies me (Church on time) makes me party (Church on time) puts my trust in God and man (God and man) no confession (God and man) no religion (God and man) don’t believe in modern love ---
**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:** [January 29, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8854 "2025-01-29T21:46:14Z")
A strange kind of love A strange kind of feeling Swims through your eyes And like the doors To a wide vast dominion They open to your prize This is no terror ground Or place for the rage No broken hearts Whitewashed lies Just a taste for the truth Perfect taste choice and meaning A look into your eyes ---
**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:** [January 29, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8855 "2025-01-29T22:08:22Z")
Look into my eyes – You will see, What you mean to me Search your heart, search your soul When you find me there, you’ll search no more _(Everything I Do)_ I Do It for You – _Bryan Adams_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [January 30, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8856 "2025-01-30T01:13:02Z")
Your eyes got me dreaming Your eyes got me blind Your eyes got me hoping That I’ll be holding you close tonight Ebony eyes Ebony eyes Ebony eyes Ebony eyes ---
**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:** [January 30, 2025, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8857 "2025-01-30T01:17:03Z")
I look at her and she looks at me In her eyes I see the sea I can’t see what she sees in a man like me She says she loves me Her eyes Her eyes Her eyes are a blue million miles ---
**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:** [January 30, 2025, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8858 "2025-01-30T01:58:52Z")
The playmate sings Like Orphee in some thunder world Asking to be bathed in light To be exemplified With grey desire he looks out mad His soft grey indigo eyes Indigo eyes ---
**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:** [January 30, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8859 "2025-01-30T17:04:20Z")
Childhood comes for me at night Voices of my friends Your face bathing me in light Hope that never ends ---
**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:** [January 31, 2025, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8860 "2025-01-31T00:58:09Z")
I won’t grow up I don’t want to go to school Just to learn to be a puppet And recite a silly rule ---
**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:** [January 31, 2025, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8861 "2025-01-31T01:35:14Z")
Remember a day before today A day when you were young Free to play alone with time Evening never came. Why can’t we play today? Why can’t we stay that way? ---
**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:** [January 31, 2025, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/8862 "2025-01-31T01:42:03Z")
I seen you walking down in Chinatown I call you but you could not look around Why can’t we be friends? Why can’t we be friends? Why can’t we be friends? Why can’t we be friends? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=442) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=444)