# 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:** 487
**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:** [May 19, 2025, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9723 "2025-05-19T02:39:37Z")
Come out, Virginia, don’t let me wait You Catholic girls start much too late Aww, but sooner or later, it comes down to fate I might as well be the one Well, they showed you a statue, told you to pray They built you a temple and locked you away Aww, but they never told you the price that you pay For things that you might have done Well, only the good die young ---
**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:** [May 19, 2025, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9724 "2025-05-19T03:23:16Z")
But come on, come on down Sweet Virginia Come on, honey child, beg you Come on, come on down, you got it in ya Got to scrape the shit right off your shoes ---
**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:** [May 19, 2025, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9725 "2025-05-19T13:30:01Z")
There’s a lot of honey in this world Baby this honey’s from me You’ve got to do what you do Do it with me It seems a shame to waste your time for me Daphne, look What it’s doing to 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:** [May 19, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9726 "2025-05-19T14:44:03Z")
Now my life’s an empty stage Where honey lived, and honey played And love grew up And a small cloud passes over head And cries down on the flower bed that Honey loved And see the tree, how big it’s grown But friend, it hasn’t been too long It wasn’t big And I laughed at her, and she got mad The first day that she planted it Was just a twig ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9727 "2025-05-19T15:57:27Z")
All the world’s a theater stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayals Each another’s audience Outside a gilded cage ---
**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:** [May 19, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9728 "2025-05-19T16:37:54Z")
The curtain rises on the scene With someone shouting to be free The play unfolds before my eyes There stands the actor who is me The sleeping hours take us far Through traffic, telephones and fear Put out your problems with the cat Escape until above your fear ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9729 "2025-05-19T18:32:30Z")
The lights go down, the stage is set The man in the wings breaks out in sweat A backstage joker spiked his coke While the dressing room was full of smoke A crowd of fools got him high He’s afraid he’s gonna die He’s the apple of their eye ---
**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:** [May 19, 2025, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9730 "2025-05-19T22:05:18Z")
Well, we’re big rock singers We got golden fingers And we’re loved everywhere we go (That sounds like us) We sing about beauty and we sing about truth At ten thousand dollars a show (right) We take all kind of pills that give us all kind of thrills But the thrill we’ve never known Is the thrill that’ll get ya when you get your picture On the cover of the Rolling Stone ---
**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:** [May 19, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9731 "2025-05-19T22:15:36Z")
Never sigh for better world It’s already composed, played and told Every thought the music I write Everything a wish for the night If you read this line, remember not the hand that wrote it Remember only the verse, songmaker’s cry the one without tears For I’ve given this its strength and it has become my only strength. Comforting home, mother’s lap, chance for immortality Where being wanted became a thrill I never knew The sweet piano writing down my life ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9732 "2025-05-19T22:20:43Z")
We know of an ancient radiation That haunts dismembered constellations A faintly glimmering radio station While Frank Sinatra sings “Stormy Weather” The flies and spiders get along together Cobwebs fall on an old skipping record ---
**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:** [May 20, 2025, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9733 "2025-05-20T20:55:49Z")
That’s the way it began We were hand-in-hand Glenn Miller’s band Was better than before We yelled and screamed for more And the Porter tune (Night and day) Made us dance across the room It ended all too soon On the way back home I promised you’d never be alone ---
**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:** [May 20, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9734 "2025-05-20T21:42:32Z")
You said nothing will change We were almost near Almost far Down came the rain But nothing will change You promised A promise A promise A promise It’s exactly the same You said It’s always the same But I’ll make it change Into something the same I promise ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9735 "2025-05-21T04:22:54Z")
If you need a friend Don’t look to a stranger You know in the end I’ll always be there And when you’re in doubt And when you’re in danger Take a look all around And I’ll be there I’m sorry but I’m just thinking of the right words to say (I promise you) I know they don’t sound the way I planned them to be (I promise you) But if you wait around a while I’ll make you fall for me (I promise you) I promise, I promise you, I will ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9736 "2025-05-21T05:13:56Z")
Inside you’re burning I can see clear through Your eyes tell more than you mean them to Lit up and flashing Like the reds and blues Out there on the neon avenue But I feel like a stranger Feel like a stranger ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9737 "2025-05-21T05:39:53Z")
I fell into a burning ring of fire, I went down down down and the flames went higher… It burns burns burns, That ring of fire, the ring of fire… ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9738 "2025-05-21T13:43:10Z")
You can blow out a candle But you can’t blow out a fire Once the flames begin to catch The wind will blow it higher Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja The man is dead, the man is dead ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9739 "2025-05-21T13:52:51Z")
Women got legs, men got pants I got the picnic, you got the ants Put it in the fire heaven knows Take my torch and touch your toes in hell It’s a burning hell You can burn in hell It’s a burning hell You can burn in hell It’s a burning hell ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9740 "2025-05-21T13:56:24Z")
Welcome to the abandoned land Come on in child, take my hand Here there’s no work or play Only one bill to pay There’s just five words to say As you go down, down, down: YOU’RE GONNA BURN IN HELL. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9741 "2025-05-21T14:01:15Z")
Ambition? Yeah If all I’ve heard is true There’s nothin’ much I can do To change the world, it’s irreversible But in what it lacks It’s got a taste that smacks of somethin’ irresistable Gonna raise hell, gonna raise hell, gonna raise hell Gonna raise hell, gonna raise hell, gonna raise hell ---
**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:** [May 21, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9742 "2025-05-21T14:15:47Z")
And I can change the world I will be the sunlight in your universe You would think my love was really something good Baby, if I could change the world [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=486) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=488)