"Fire & Rain" lyrics
Check check, this thang on?
There's lil' echo like a reverb, take it off
Yeah, that's it, perfect
Check check! It's one of my favourite songs
Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone
(Yeah) Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you (Yeah, yeah)
I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song
I just can't remember who to send it to
So much pressure and pain there's a stress in the game
'Cause when it's different it's just different it's never the same
And I expect it to rain 'cause really where I'm from
The sun don't ever get to come
My daddy use to tell me about the passion of Christ
Instead of daddy's advice, I went to baggin' it up white
So many lonely nights, so many memories of dead homies inside
Of my mind that I hold 'em tight
I shake it twice blow it once then I roll the dice
And pray to God that I don't get killed overnight
My brother tried to go and rob a delivery guy
He never thought that pizza man was equipped with a nine
Never thought that'd be the way that my brother would die
So now I'm thinking "What kind of big brother am I?"
That's the type of thoughts late at night that's in my mind
To protect and provide and I tried, but I failed
Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again
Yeah, I was on my way to golf shores with my father, for the family vacation, for the first time in fifteen years, to go see my brother Roger Sky and my sister Shelby, we listened to this song together, and my dad began to tell me the story about where James Taylor was at in his life when he wrote this song, I felt so connected to it
Fire and rain, Lord, I'm tryin' to change
Feel like it's ice cold blood flowin' inside of my veins
Feel like it's nothin' but bad memories inside of my brain
And I'm scared to get burnt but I desire to flame
It makes no sense at all, I swear it really makes no sense at all
I pray my brother finally makes it out of them prison walls
My daughter's four and a half, now she's gettin' big
But I don't get to see her 'cause of the life I live
I'm such a bad father I'm always on the road
I'm always chasin' rainbows full of pots of gold
Man, and I'm believin' in you God
I hope ya trying 'cause I can't see ya through the phone
*Phew* Lord, and I swear I feel so close to ya
I fell love with a girl almost proposed to her
I almost got on one knee
But she couldn't accept me for me, for real
Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again
Yeah, one take, I always said this rap shit's easy, you just gotta tell the truth, so here it goes
I sat alone in a room and contemplate suicide
Then did a show the same night and said "I'm doing fine"
Nobody understands how I feel inside
I just try to tell 'em about a million time
I feel so close, yet feel so far
I'm always on my grind, I'm goin' so hard
Now is there really and afterlife
For people like me out here that ain't actin' right
Lord a picture's worth a thousand words
Now picture a young man gettin' a thousand nerves
Picture a man gettin' a thousand birds
Gettin' a thousand years without a word
Some days I feel like I have to pray
And close my eyes and pray I make it to a happy place
Yeah, and that's true, c'mon
Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again
Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again
There's lil' echo like a reverb, take it off
Yeah, that's it, perfect
Check check! It's one of my favourite songs
Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone
(Yeah) Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you (Yeah, yeah)
I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song
I just can't remember who to send it to
So much pressure and pain there's a stress in the game
'Cause when it's different it's just different it's never the same
And I expect it to rain 'cause really where I'm from
The sun don't ever get to come
My daddy use to tell me about the passion of Christ
Instead of daddy's advice, I went to baggin' it up white
So many lonely nights, so many memories of dead homies inside
Of my mind that I hold 'em tight
I shake it twice blow it once then I roll the dice
And pray to God that I don't get killed overnight
My brother tried to go and rob a delivery guy
He never thought that pizza man was equipped with a nine
Never thought that'd be the way that my brother would die
So now I'm thinking "What kind of big brother am I?"
That's the type of thoughts late at night that's in my mind
To protect and provide and I tried, but I failed
Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again
Yeah, I was on my way to golf shores with my father, for the family vacation, for the first time in fifteen years, to go see my brother Roger Sky and my sister Shelby, we listened to this song together, and my dad began to tell me the story about where James Taylor was at in his life when he wrote this song, I felt so connected to it
Fire and rain, Lord, I'm tryin' to change
Feel like it's ice cold blood flowin' inside of my veins
Feel like it's nothin' but bad memories inside of my brain
And I'm scared to get burnt but I desire to flame
It makes no sense at all, I swear it really makes no sense at all
I pray my brother finally makes it out of them prison walls
My daughter's four and a half, now she's gettin' big
But I don't get to see her 'cause of the life I live
I'm such a bad father I'm always on the road
I'm always chasin' rainbows full of pots of gold
Man, and I'm believin' in you God
I hope ya trying 'cause I can't see ya through the phone
*Phew* Lord, and I swear I feel so close to ya
I fell love with a girl almost proposed to her
I almost got on one knee
But she couldn't accept me for me, for real
Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again
Yeah, one take, I always said this rap shit's easy, you just gotta tell the truth, so here it goes
I sat alone in a room and contemplate suicide
Then did a show the same night and said "I'm doing fine"
Nobody understands how I feel inside
I just try to tell 'em about a million time
I feel so close, yet feel so far
I'm always on my grind, I'm goin' so hard
Now is there really and afterlife
For people like me out here that ain't actin' right
Lord a picture's worth a thousand words
Now picture a young man gettin' a thousand nerves
Picture a man gettin' a thousand birds
Gettin' a thousand years without a word
Some days I feel like I have to pray
And close my eyes and pray I make it to a happy place
Yeah, and that's true, c'mon
Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again
Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain
I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
But I always thought that I'd see you again
