# 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:** 493
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9843 "2025-06-13T18:57:22Z")
Don’t project Don’t connect Protect Don’t expect Suggest (I feel numb) Don’t project Don’t connect Protect Don’t expect Suggest (I feel numb) Don’t struggle Don’t jerk Don’t collar Don’t work Don’t wish Don’t fish Don’t teach Don’t reach (I feel numb) ---
**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:** [June 13, 2025, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9844 "2025-06-13T19:03:59Z")
Wee! It’s fun to be in an upside-down world There’s fish that fall out of the sea There’s upside-down clocks that make everyone late Upside-down food that won’t stay on your plate In an upside-down world, in an upside-down world ---
**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:** [June 13, 2025, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9845 "2025-06-13T19:39:26Z")
If you’re looking for love In a looking glass world It’s pretty hard to find Oh mother of pearl I wouldn’t trade you for another girl ---
**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:** [June 13, 2025, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9846 "2025-06-13T20:05:44Z")
You better watch what you say You better watch what you do to me Don’t get carried away Girl, if you can do better than me Go Yeah, go But remember Good love is hard to find Good love is hard to find You got lucky, babe You got lucky, babe When I found you ---
**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:** [June 14, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9847 "2025-06-14T00:00:50Z")
I was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar That much is true But even then I knew I’d find a much better place Either with or without you The five years we have had have been such good at times I still love you But now I think it’s time I live my life on my own ---
**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:** [June 14, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9848 "2025-06-14T00:03:59Z")
See the stone set in your eyes See the thorn twist in your side I wait for you Sleight of hand and twist of fate On a bed of nails she makes me wait And I wait, without you With or without you With or without you ---
**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:** [June 14, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9849 "2025-06-14T00:42:53Z")
When you’ve seen beyond yourself then you may find Peace of mind is waiting there And the time will come when you see we’re all one And life flows on within you and without 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:** [June 14, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9850 "2025-06-14T00:47:40Z")
But life goes on, you know it ain’t easy You’ve just gotta be strong if you’re one of the six teens And life goes on, you know, you know it ain’t easy You know you’ll never go wrong 'cause you’re all part of the six teens ---
**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:** [June 14, 2025, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9851 "2025-06-14T00:56:01Z")
Tell me how it happened did it hurt did you cry? Did you ever feel yourself falling out of the sky? Did you ever lie awake and wonder why? Did you ever fall asleep and dream that you died? Now it’s time to slow things down Because I told you life speeds up and up and up ---
**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:** [June 14, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9852 "2025-06-14T14:59:56Z")
Are you sleeping? Can you hear me? Do you know if I am beside your side? ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9853 "2025-06-14T15:14:12Z")
Do you hear me? Do you care? Do you hear me? Do you care? My lips are moving and the sound’s coming out The words are audible but I have my doubts That you realize what has been said You look at me as if you’re in a daze It’s like the feeling at the end of the page When you realize you don’t know what you just read ---
**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:** [June 14, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9854 "2025-06-14T15:40:19Z")
They worship me and all I touch Hazy eyed, they catch my glance, Pleasant shudders shake their senses My warm momentum throws their stance. You’ll feel me coming A new vibration. From afar you’ll see me I’m a sensation. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9855 "2025-06-14T15:48:49Z")
Live, baby, live Now that the day is over I got a new sensation In perfect moments That’s impossible to refuse Sleep, baby, sleep Now that the night is over And the sun comes Like a god into our room All perfect light and promises Got a hold on you A new sensation, a new sensation Right now, it’s gonna take you over A new sensation, a new sensation ---
**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:** [June 14, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9856 "2025-06-14T16:13:01Z")
Crack, baby, crack Show me you’re real Smack baby smack Is all that you feel Suck, baby, suck Give me your head Before you start professing That you’re knocking me dead ---
**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:** [June 14, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9857 "2025-06-14T16:14:53Z")
Sweat, baby, sweat, baby sex is a Texas drought Me and you do the kind of stuff that only Prince would sing about So put your hands down my pants and I’ll bet you’ll feel nuts Yes, I’m Siskel, yes, I’m Ebert And you’re getting two thumbs up You’ve had enough of two-hand touch You want it rough, you’re out of bounds I want you smothered, want you covered Like my Waffle House hash browns Comin’ quicker than FedEx, never reaching apex Just like Coca-Cola stock, you are inclined To make me rise an hour early just like Daylight Savings Time ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9858 "2025-06-15T03:24:02Z")
We, we said goodbye before hello My secrets she will never know And if I dig a hole to China I’ll catch the first junk to Soho What if I were Romeo in black jeans What if I was Heathcliff, it’s no myth Maybe she’s just looking for Someone to dance with ---
**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:** [June 15, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9859 "2025-06-15T12:59:02Z")
Did you ever think, when you eat Chinese It ain’t pork or chicken but a fat Siamese? Yet the food tastes great, so you don’t complain. But that’s not chicken in your chicken chow mein. Seems to me I ordered sweet-and-sour pork But Garfield’s on my fork. He’s purrin’ here on my fork. There’s a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon The place that I eat every day at noon. They can feed you cat and you’ll never know ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9860 "2025-06-15T15:20:27Z")
How come you’re always such a fussy young man? Don’t want no Captain Crunch, don’t want no Raisin Bran Well, don’t you know that other kids are starving in Japan? So, eat it, just eat it Don’t wanna argue, I don’t wanna debate Don’t wanna hear about what kind of food you hate You won’t get no dessert 'til you clean off your plate So eat it, don’t you tell me you’re full Just eat it (eat it), eat it (eat it) Get yourself an egg and beat it Have some more chicken, have some more pie It doesn’t matter if it’s boiled or fried Just eat it ---
**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:** [June 15, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9861 "2025-06-15T15:57:21Z")
Terry got a muffin and he buttered it down Buttered it down Buttered it down Terry got a muffin and he buttered it down Buttered that muffin down Johnny got some popcorn and he popped it up Popped it up Popped it up Johnny got some popcorn and he popped it up Popped that corn right up ---
**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:** [June 15, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254/9862 "2025-06-15T18:04:34Z")
The muffin man is seated at the table In the laboratory of the utility muffin Research kitchen. Reaching for an oversized chrome spoon, He gathers an Intimate quantity of dried muffin Remnants and brushing his scapular aside, Procceds to dump these inside of his shirt He turns to us and speaks: “Some people like cupcakes better. I for one care less for them!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=492) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-seen-fire-and-ive-seen-rain-2-part-1/912254.md?page=494)