# 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:** 475
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9483 "2025-04-25T14:21:59Z")
Down by the seaside See the boats go sailin’ Can the people hear Oh, what the little fish are sayin’? Oh, oh, people turned away Oh, people turned away ---
**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 25, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9484 "2025-04-25T15:03:47Z")
The first thing that I saw as, The fisherman smiled at me The fields of empty people Floating out to sea The rain lashed down in darkness A lizard blinked an eye And time stopped in the silence The small fish gave a cry ---
**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 25, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9485 "2025-04-25T15:07:18Z")
Tiny purple fishes Run laughing through your fingers And you want to take her with you To the hard land of the winter ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9486 "2025-04-25T15:15:03Z")
Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water Come back here, man, gimme my daughter Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water Come back here, man, gimme my daughter ---
**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 25, 2025, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9487 "2025-04-25T16:07:32Z")
Midnight on the water. I saw the ocean’s daughter. Walking on a wave, she came, Staring as she called my name. And I can’t get it out of my head, No, I can’t get it out of my head. Now my old world is gone for dead 'Cos I can’t get it out of my head. ---
**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 25, 2025, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9488 "2025-04-25T16:08:18Z")
The first time together, how simple, how rare And just when you thought you’d forgot how to care And though you feel much more than you dare to show The first time it happens, you know ---
**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 25, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9489 "2025-04-25T16:26:40Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Walking on a wave, she came, (Speaking as an ELO nerd, the line, as shown on the lyrics sheet for that album, is actually “[Walking on a wave’s chicane](https://genius.com/Electric-light-orchestra-cant-get-it-out-of-my-head-lyrics).” But, it’s an obscure word, and “she came” fits the rhyme better.) In play: Well, I remember, I remember, don’t worry How could I ever forget? It’s the first time The last time we ever met But I know the reason why you keep your silence up No, you don’t fool me Well, the hurt doesn’t show, but the pain still grows It’s no stranger to you and me ---
**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 25, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9490 "2025-04-25T16:31:07Z")
She walks every day through the streets of New Orleans She is innocent and young, from a family of means I have stood many times outside her window at night To struggle with my instincts in the pale moonlight How could I be this way when I pray to God above? I must love what I destroy, destroy the thing I love Oh, you’ll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet While there’s a moon over Bourbon Street ---
**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 25, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9491 "2025-04-25T16:40:42Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > (Speaking as an ELO nerd, the line, as shown on the lyrics sheet for that album, is actually “[Walking on a wave’s chicane](https://genius.com/Electric-light-orchestra-cant-get-it-out-of-my-head-lyrics).” But, it’s an obscure word, and “she came” fits the rhyme better.) [Even the liner notes are often written by record label flunkies guesstimating them, and not necessarily with the official lyricist’s seal of approval. “Chicane” sounds like just such an ungrammatical and nonsensical mondegreen (as a racing fan I know exactly what one is), likely by a non-English speaker too. Lyric sites online of course absolutely cannot be trusted, if that is actually where you got it from.] * * * Dreaming of Mercy Street Wear your inside out Dreaming of mercy In your daddy’s arms again Dreaming of Mercy Street I swear they moved that sign Dreaming of mercy In your daddy’s arms ---
**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 25, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9492 "2025-04-25T16:42:38Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Lyric sites online of course absolutely cannot be trusted, if that is actually where you got it from. Quoted it from there, but I remember reading it from the lyric sheet on the album, back in the early '80s. ---
**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 25, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9493 "2025-04-25T18:00:22Z")
Hey, you don’t know me, but you don’t like me Say you care less how I feel But how many of you that sit and judged me Ever walked the streets of Bakersfield? Spent some time in San Francisco I spent a night there in the can They threw this drunk man in my jail cell I took fifteen dollars from that man ---
**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 25, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9494 "2025-04-25T18:41:49Z")
If you don’t know me by now You will never, never, never know me If You Don’t Know Me By Now – _Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**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 25, 2025, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9495 "2025-04-25T19:41:52Z")
_The only one I know, has come to take me away_ _The only one I know, is mine when she stitches me_ _The only one I see, has found an aching in me_ _The only one I see, has turned her tongue into me_ The Only One I Know - The Charlatans ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9496 "2025-04-25T20:16:04Z")
They´re coming to take me away, Haha, they´re coming to take me away, Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha, To the funny farm Where life is beautiful all the time And I´ll be happy to see Those nice young men In their clean white coats And they´re coming to take me AWAY, HA HAAAA ---
**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 25, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9497 "2025-04-25T22:17:30Z")
I thought that they were angels Much to my surprise We climbed aboard their starship And headed for the skies Sing: Come sail away, come sail away Come and sail away with 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:** [April 25, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9498 "2025-04-25T22:21:59Z")
Come, Josephine, in my flying machine, going up, she goes. Up, she goes Balance yourself like a bird on a beam in the air she goes; there she goes Up, up, a little bit higher! Oh, my! The moon is on fire! Come, Josephine, in my flying machine, going up! Hold on! Goodbye! Going up, she goes! Up, she goes! In the air she goes! There she goes! Up, up! Oh, my! Going up! Hold on! Goodbye! ---
**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 25, 2025, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9499 "2025-04-25T22:26:24Z")
But somehow I can’t believe that anything should happen I know where I belong, and nothing’s gonna happen Cuz she’s so high, high above me, she’s so lovely She’s so high, like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite She’s so high, high above 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 25, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9500 "2025-04-25T22:47:17Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > Cuz she’s so high, high above me, she’s so lovely > She’s so high, like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite > She’s so high, high above me (Tal Bachman! \<3 ) You’ve blown it all sky high By telling me a lie Without a reason why You’ve blown it all sky high You, you’ve blown it all sky high Our love had wings to fly We could have touched the sky You’ve blown it all sky high ---
**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 25, 2025, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9501 "2025-04-25T22:54:14Z")
You’ve got to lift yourself up so high You can’t see the ground You don’t hear a sound You’ve got to move it up so slow You see it all You’ll probably fall I’d rather die than see you fly Than see you try ---
**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 25, 2025, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9502 "2025-04-25T23:19:17Z")
All I’m doing is aiding All I offer to give is a helping hand But I cannot see but two feet in front of me So try to understand When you’re caught in a doorway And a fire is nipping at your heel When you’re caught on a sinking ship Enjoy your trip and pray it isn’t real [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=474) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=476)