# 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:** 476
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9503 "2025-04-26T06:00:47Z")
Did you stop it to consider How it will feel? Cold, grinding grizzly bear jaws Hot on your heels Do you often stop and whisper? It’s Saturday’s shore The whole world’s a savior Who could ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever Ask for more? ---
**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 26, 2025, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9504 "2025-04-26T12:23:33Z")
I’ve got daisies But they’re in green pastures I got my man Who could ask for anything 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:** [April 26, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9505 "2025-04-26T12:37:10Z")
And then I prevail again, again As all these memories pass again I look ahead to the new day again Please no more dark days, dark days Again, again And from the top of the mountain I stare down on new flowers And go straight into a new day And I see the new flowers And I drift down towards a new day And I feel like new flowers Now I’m on the steps of a new day And new flowers, and new flowers ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9506 "2025-04-26T15:03:27Z")
Got a case of dynamite I could hold out here all night Well, I crossed my old man back in Oregon Don’t take me alive ---
**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 26, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9507 "2025-04-26T15:24:14Z")
Dynamite Dynamite Dynamite Dynamite Dynamite Dynamite Dynamite Baby… I am your animal watching your head I have been following you Walking behind you Sleeping with you Getting into your bed ---
**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 26, 2025, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9508 "2025-04-26T16:53:16Z")
Private eyes They’re watching you They see your every move Private eyes They’re watching you Private eyes They’re watching you, watching you, watching you, watching 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 26, 2025, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9509 "2025-04-26T17:10:14Z")
I’m gonna love you like nothing you’ve known I’m gonna love you and you all alone Sooner is better than later but lover I’ll hover, I’ll plan This time I’m not only getting, I’m holding my man ---
**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 26, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9510 "2025-04-26T21:28:58Z")
Every breath you take And every move you make Every bond you break, every step you take I’ll be watchin’ you Every single day And every word you say Every game you play, every night you stay I’ll be watchin’ you Oh, can’t you see You belong to me? How my poor heart aches With every step you take ---
**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 26, 2025, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9511 "2025-04-26T22:14:14Z")
I am the mastermind, the master of my fate (I realized too late) Sure as the stars have shined I’ll give my life to clean your slate (Don’t give your life to clean my slate) You’re my light (You’re my heart) Only death can rend our love apart ---
**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 26, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9512 "2025-04-26T23:20:35Z")
Where life really flows, no one really knows ‘Til someone’s there to show the way to lastin’ love Like the sun it shines, endlessly it shines You always will be mine, if eternal 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:** [April 27, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9513 "2025-04-27T00:03:46Z")
Let me tell you something There’s a change in me Even now you’re gone You’ll always be My only love There’s a river flowing By a willow tree When you find you’re there Remember me My only love ---
**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 27, 2025, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9514 "2025-04-27T04:15:49Z")
We’re singin’ all day, and you can’t tame it High tide, low tide, you know Nighttime, mornin’ time, and we’re goin’ strong Headed up, down the river Oh, Lord, I feel the reveling I feel a change on the rise ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9515 "2025-04-27T15:38:56Z")
I watch the ripples change their size But never leave the stream of warm impermanence and So the days float through my eyes But still the days seem the same And these children that you spit on As they try to change their worlds Are immune to your consultations ---
**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 27, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9516 "2025-04-27T16:25:15Z")
Gathering of the storm And the winds are blowing wild Sweeping over cross and creed Country, colour and child Mother Nature cries for love Her children lost at sea And as the waves take me away Say a prayer for liberty ---
**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 27, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9517 "2025-04-27T18:33:50Z")
What have we done to the world? Look what we’ve done What about all the peace That you pledge your only son? What about flowering fields? Is there a time? What about all the dreams That you said was yours and mine? Did you ever stop to notice All the children dead from war? Did you ever stop to notice This crying Earth, these weeping shores? ---
**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 27, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9518 "2025-04-27T18:41:52Z")
A gunfire shatters silence Where birds once sweetly sang A mother cradles a child now dead Now death where life began From the troubled heart of South Africa Nicaragua’s festering sore The turmoil on the streets of China Death crying out for more Oh my heart be strong And guide when eyes grow dim When ears grow deaf with empty words When I know there’s life within ---
**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 27, 2025, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9519 "2025-04-27T18:45:53Z")
There is a woman in Somalia Scraping for pearls on the roadside There’s a force stronger than nature Keeps her will alive This is how she’s dying She’s dying to survive Don’t know what she’s made of I would like to be that brave She cries to the heaven above There is a stone in my heart She lives a life she didn’t choose And it hurts like brand new shoes Hurts like brand new shoes ---
**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 27, 2025, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9520 "2025-04-27T18:49:07Z")
She’s a rich girl She don’t try to hide it Diamonds on the soles of her shoes He’s a poor boy Empty as a pocket Empty as a pocket with nothing to lose Sing Ta na na Ta na na na She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes She got diamonds on the soles of her shoes ---
**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 27, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9521 "2025-04-27T18:52:08Z")
The injustice of our greed The practice we inherit The dirt, scarcity and the emptiness Of our South ---
**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 27, 2025, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9522 "2025-04-27T22:42:56Z")
Who the hell are you to tell me What to do, why to do, why bother Leech in a mask of virtue Such waste, to ever think of you again Hey Judas, your Christess was our love Hit and run, your will be done Never sorry, never wrong More more more more more Master passion greed [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=475) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=477)