# 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:** 459
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9163 "2025-03-23T16:39:09Z")
S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y night! S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y night! ---
**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 23, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9164 "2025-03-23T17:10:07Z")
Went down to the mountain, I was drinking some wine Looked up in the Heaven, Lord, I saw a mighty sign Written fire across the heaven, plain as black and white “Get prepared, there’s gonna be a party tonight” Uh uh hey, Saturday night Hey uh uh, one more Saturday night Hey, Saturday night ---
**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 23, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9165 "2025-03-23T20:48:43Z")
Another Saturday night and I ain’t got nobody I got some money 'cause i just got paid How I wish I had someone to talk to I’m in an awful way ---
**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:** [March 23, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9166 "2025-03-23T21:41:04Z")
No sleep at all, runnin’ a lie Doing you wrong, proving you right each time That’s a (That’s a), that’s a double negative, oh Showing up late, draggin’ along Won’t pick up the phone while I’ll be gone Can’t deny it It’s a double negative Oh, double negative ---
**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 23, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9167 "2025-03-23T23:10:34Z")
Fill my eyes with that double vision No disguise with that double vision Ooh, when it gets through to me It’s always new to me My double vision gets the best of 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:** [March 24, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9168 "2025-03-24T00:16:40Z")
Well I was born down in the gutter With a temper as hot as fire Spent ninety days on a peat farm just doin’ the county’s time Well now, even mama said son you’re bad news And it won’t be too long before someone puts one through you Double trouble that’s what my friends all call me (Double trouble double trouble) I said, double trouble ---
**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:** [March 24, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9169 "2025-03-24T00:35:37Z")
I was born in a crossfire hurricane And I howled at my ma in the drivin’ rain But it’s all right now In fact, it’s a gas But it’s all right I’m Jumpin’ Jack Flash It’s a gas, gas, gas ---
**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:** [March 24, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9170 "2025-03-24T00:36:25Z")
Out of gas, out of road Out of car, I don’t know how I’m going to go And I had a drink the other day Opinions were like kittens, I was giving them away I had a drink the other day I had a lot to say ---
**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 24, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9171 "2025-03-24T00:44:58Z")
What’s that metronome I hear? Perhaps the end is drawing near You never hear the shot that takes you down Out of time, so say goodbye What is yours now is mine And I dream broken dreams, I’ll make them come true I’ll make them for you ---
**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 24, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9172 "2025-03-24T16:01:28Z")
I walk a lonely road The only one that I have ever known Don’t know where it goes But it’s home to me, and I walk alone I walk this empty street On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams Where the city sleeps And I’m the only one, and I walk alone I walk alone, I walk alone ---
**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:** [March 24, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9173 "2025-03-24T16:18:35Z")
Down on the boulevard they take it hard They look at life with such disregard They say it can’t be won The way the game is run But if you choose to stay You wind up playing anyway It’s okay ---
**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 24, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9174 "2025-03-24T16:20:15Z")
Stay, that’s what I meant to say or do something But what I never say is stay this time I really meant to so badly this time 'Cause you can never really tell when somebody Wants so much to stay ---
**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 24, 2025, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9175 "2025-03-24T16:33:58Z")
Oh, won’t you stay Just a little bit longer? Please let me dance And say you will (Say you will) ---
**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 24, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9176 "2025-03-24T17:32:36Z")
Stay awhile, let me hold you Stay awhile, 'til I’ve told you, oh, oh Of the love that I feel tonight, oh yeah Stay awhile, what’s your hurry? Stay awhile, 'cause I worry, oh Any time that you’re out of sight ---
**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 24, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9177 "2025-03-24T18:24:10Z")
This unspoken contract, a deed we forged for mutual gain If that’s all this was when you’re not here, what is this rooted pain? I don’t care that you’re of lower station, or primed to sate my dark temptations Why can’t you understand? Let me explain! And I’m terrified as I cry to make these feelings true What’s left for me and my broken heart, if I cannot have you? ---
**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 24, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9178 "2025-03-24T18:37:35Z")
I got a Maserati G.T. With snake skin upholstery I got a charge account at Goldblatt’s But I ain’t got 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 24, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9179 "2025-03-24T19:12:33Z")
I’ve got diamonds, music too Just as much as before Got my guy and my sky of blue Now, however, I own the view More is better than something, true But nothing’s better than more, more, more Nothing’s better than more ---
**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:** [March 24, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9180 "2025-03-24T21:09:45Z")
Some people get by With a little understanding Some people get by With a whole lot more Oh, I don’t know Why you gotta be so undemanding I WANT MORE! And I need all the love I can get And I need all the love that I can’t get to And I need all the love I can get And I need all the love that I can’t get to ---
**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 24, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9181 "2025-03-24T22:40:11Z")
I got you to hold my hand I got you to understand I got you to walk with me I got you to talk with me I got you to kiss goodnight I got you to hold me tight I got you, I won’t let go I got you to love me so I got you babe ---
**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 24, 2025, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9182 "2025-03-24T22:45:41Z")
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