# 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:** 466
**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:** [April 7, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9303 "2025-04-07T14:17:08Z")
From here to heaven is a scar Dead center, deep as death All the idiots have left The idiots have left Cows are almost cooing Turtle doves are mooing Which is why a Pooh is poohing In the sun Sun ---
**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:** [April 7, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9304 "2025-04-07T14:45:32Z")
There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold And she’s buying a stairway to heaven When she gets there, she knows If the stores are all closed With a word, she can get what she came for ---
**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:** [April 7, 2025, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9305 "2025-04-07T15:53:24Z")
I’ll build a stairway to Paradise With a new step ev’ry day! I’m gonna get there at any price; Stand aside, I’m on my 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:** [April 7, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9306 "2025-04-07T16:24:21Z")
Stay Stay here in paradise Only to stay so lonely From this maelstrom free are you Free and lonely From this maelstrom to be with you And I’d lay here with 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:** [April 7, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9307 "2025-04-07T17:44:17Z")
Whatcha doing tonight? Haven’t you heard that the world’s gone crazy? Young Americans, listen when I say There’s people putting us down I know they’re saying that we’ve gone lazy To tell you the truth, we’ve all seen better days ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9308 "2025-04-07T19:24:12Z")
All the way from Washington Her bread-winner begs off the bathroom floor We live for just these twenty years Do we have to die for the fifty more? All night He wants the young American ---
**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:** [April 8, 2025, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9309 "2025-04-08T11:48:01Z")
She came in through the bathroom window Protected by a silver spoon But now she sucks her thumb and wonders By the banks of her own lagoon Have y’all ever listened to lyrics for 50 years and suddenly discovered what they actually said because you looked them up? Astounding. ---
**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:** [April 8, 2025, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9310 "2025-04-08T12:38:01Z")
Some folks are born silver spoon in hand Lord, don’t they help themselves, Lord? But when the taxman come to the door Lord, the house lookin’ like a rummage sale, 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:** [April 8, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9311 "2025-04-08T12:39:32Z")
On the day that you were born, the angels got together And decided to create a dream come true So they sprinkled moonlight in your hair And golden starlight in your eyes of blue ---
**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:** [April 8, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9312 "2025-04-08T14:42:44Z")
Nobody knows about my man They think he’s lost on some horizon And suddenly I find myself Listening to a man I’ve never known before Telling me about the sea All his loves to eternity Ooh he’s here again The man with the child in his eyes Ooh he’s here again The man with the child in his eyes ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9313 "2025-04-08T15:58:43Z")
You’d better lock you house and keep the kids inside Here come the twentieth century’s latest scam He’s a half a boy and half a man He ain’t a fool but he’s a tool Because his left don’t know what his right hand’s doin’ He’d keep a King Kong eating out of the palm of his hand Now he’s a half a boy and half a man ---
**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:** [April 8, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9314 "2025-04-08T19:15:30Z")
I’m in the middle, the middle of life I’m a boy and I’m a man I’m eighteen and I like it Yes, I like it Oh, I like it Love it, like it, love it Eighteen, eighteen Eighteen, eighteen and I like it ---
**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:** [April 8, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9315 "2025-04-08T20:14:11Z")
Oh, she was just seventeen You know what I mean And the way she looked was way beyond compare How could I dance with another When I saw her standing there? ---
**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:** [April 8, 2025, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9316 "2025-04-08T22:16:22Z")
I learned the truth at seventeen That love was meant for beauty queens And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles Who married young and then retired At Seventeen – _Janis Ian_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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:** [April 8, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9317 "2025-04-08T22:51:38Z")
That girl was a one-time teenage drama queen A hot, tough everyday wannabe But she’ll have changed her destiny Now she’s a somebody That girl was a wild child dreamer But she’ll find herself 'Cause she believes in nothing else Then you’ll look back when you won’t believe That girl was me ---
**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:** [April 8, 2025, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9318 "2025-04-08T23:02:59Z")
There’s a girl I used to know Her face is her fortune She’s got a heart of gold She never goes out much But boy, when she does Then you know She’s got no money Well, maybe a dime But she knows what she’s worth And that’s reason why She’s gonna make it She’s got what it takes You’ll appreciate that She’s probably late But I know And you know We all know She’ll have a really good time ---
**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:** [April 8, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9319 "2025-04-08T23:10:49Z")
When your belly’s empty, and the hunger’s so real And you’re too proud to beg, and too dumb to steal You search the city for your only friend No one would you see You ask yourself, "Who could it be? “That solitary voice to speak out and set me free?” It’s hard to say it, I hate to say it But it’s probably me ---
**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:** [April 8, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9320 "2025-04-08T23:29:29Z")
Melinda was mine 'Til the time that I found her Holding Jim, loving him Then Sue came along, loved me strong That’s what I thought Me and Sue, but that died too Don’t know that I will But until I can find me The girl who’ll stay And won’t play games behind me I’ll be what I am A solitary man, solitary man ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9321 "2025-04-09T00:06:05Z")
Make me an offer that I can’t refuse Make me respectable, man This is my last time in the unemployment line So like it or not, I’ll take those Long nights, impossible odds Keeping my back to the wall If it takes all night to be just what I am Well, I’m gonna be a blue collar man ---
**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:** [April 9, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9322 "2025-04-09T00:14:26Z")
I’d gladly lose me to find you I’d gladly give up all I got To catch you I’m gonna run and never stop I’d pay any price just to win you Surrender my good life for bad To find you I’m gonna drown an unsung man I’d call that a bargain The best I ever had The best I ever had [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=465) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=467)