James Taylor Lyrics
Fire and Rain

Just yesterday mornin',
They let me know you were gone.
Susanne, the plans they made,
Put an end to you [5] .
I walked out this mornin',
And I wrote down this song.
I just can't remember,
Who to send it to.

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.

Won't you look down upon me, Jesus? [6]
You gotta help me make a stand.
You just got to see me,
Through another day.
My body's achin',
And my time is at hand.
And I won't make it,
Any other way

Woh, 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.

Been walkin' my mind to an easy time,
My back turned towards the sun.
Lord knows, when the cold wind blows,
It'll turn your head around.
Well, there's hours of time on the telephone line,
To talk about things to come.
Sweet dreams and flyin' machines,
In pieces on the ground [8] .

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, baby,
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One more time again, now.

Thought I'd see you one more time again.
There's just a few things comin' my way,
This time around, now.
[Fade.]
Thought I'd see you,
Thought I'd see you, fire and rain, now.


[FIRE & RAIN [1] ]
[Written by: James Taylor [2] ]
[Performed by: James Taylor [3] -1970]
[Appears on: "Fire & Rain" (B-side: "Anywhere Like Heaven" 45RPM)-1970;
Sweet Baby James-1970 [4] ; Greatest Hits-1976; Storytellers: Singers &
Songwriters (Rock'N'Roll Classics in Digital)-1987*; Live-1993; Men &
Songs-1998*; The Best of James Taylor-2003; One Man Band-2007; et al.
(*Compilation of various artists.)]

[1] "Fire & Rain" will probably always be regarded as James Taylor's
signature song. The title also serves as Billboard editor, Timothy White's
exhaustive biography of his friend, Taylor. The song went to #5 in 1970.

[2] The song was inspired by Taylor's stays at two Massachusetts hospitals.
One, the McClean Psychiatric Institute, where his parents had him committed
at age 17 because of his suicidal feelings. After his release and
graduation from high school, he went to New York where he acquired a
heroine addiction and then to London to try to kick the habit. Instead, he
wound up back in Massachusettes at Austin Riggs Hospital.

[3] Covered by: Ernie Andrews; Babyface; Blood, Sweat & Tears; Jonatha
Brooke; Cher, Alex de Grassi; John Dever; Richie Havens; Marcia Hines; The
Isley Brothers; Al Jarreau; Sammy Kershaw; Gladys Knight & the Pips; Julius
LaRosa; Hubert Laws; Maureen McGovern; Me First & the Gimme Gimmes; R.
Stevie Moore; Anne Murray; Willie Nelson; Tony Orlando; Boots Randolph; Lou
Rawls; Cliff Richard; Johnny Rivers; Sammi Smith; R. Dean Taylor; Roger
Whittaker; Andy Williams; Bobby Womack; et al.

[4] Transcribed from the track on this album.

[5] In an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine in 1972, Taylor says, "The
first verse is about my reactions to the death of a friend (Suzanne)...,"
who died from a heroine overdose while Taylor was in London.

[6] In the same interview as above [5] , Taylor recounts, "The second verse is
about my arrival in this country with a monkey on my back, and in that
verse, Jesus, is an expression of my desperation in trying to get through
the time when my body was aching and the time was at hand when I had to do
it..."

[7] Of the last verse, Taylor said, "...the third verse of the song refers
to my recuperation...which lasted about five months."

[8] Before going to London, Taylor had been playing guitar with the
now-legendary session man, Danny Kortchmar, in a band called, Flying
Machine, the lyric, "flying machines in pieces on the ground," refers to
the group's breakup after Kortchmar and Taylor left the band and relocated
to London.