…-o-oh, you hold the answer in your head, O-o-oh, try to see what I feel. It's like burning rain, burning rain, burning rain…
… burning rain, burning rain. Raindrops burning up my skin, Like no secret word's in me just trying to explain. Feel me, touch me, am I…
…strong enough to be me? O-o-oh, you hold the answer in your head, O-o-oh, try to see what I feel. It's like burning rain…
…are leaving We're going black to the dungeons Through the burning rain We'd been so strong But now we are yearning We are yearning for breathing In the burning…
…rain No return We seem to be hopeless in the night We wish we could fly but only can crawl We tried to repress the tragedy, searching for our goal On the wings of tomorrow we're losing our souls…
…this whole town's insane. On the thirty-first floor a gold plated door Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain. The scientists say It'll…
…a gold plated door Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain. A friend came around. Tried to clean up this town. His ideas made some…
…out the Lord's burning rain. On the thirty-first floor a gold plated door Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain…
…touching ground Precipice of fear Under burning rain I follow you Blindly I'm led I will never fall We…
…are the people of the spire Tethered to this rock As the ocean boils And the desert burns I follow Feet never touching ground Precipice of fear Under burning rain…
And the desert burns I follow Feet never touching ground Precipice of fear Under burning rain I follow you Blindly I'm led I…

Elite Hotel (Expanded & Remastered) (1975), Songbird: Rare Tracks & Forgotten Gems (2007), The 70's Studio Album Collection (2014)
…me in the poor house It seems like this whole town's insane On the thirty-first floor a gold plated door Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain…
…insane On the thirty-first floor a gold plated door Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain On the thirty-first floor a gold plated door Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain…

Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years (2002), Just Lookin' for a Hit (1989)
…the Lord's burning rain A fool came around tried to clean up this town His ideas made some people mad But he trusted in his crowd So he spoke…
…this whole town's insane On the thirty-first floor your gold-plated door Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain Yeah…
…on the thirty-first floor your gold-plated door Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain…
In a field of thorny flowers In a street with broken bottles I'd let you lay me down In a dehydrated desert In a puddle of burning…
…rain I'd let you pour me out In an overcrowded city In a desolate ghost town I'd let you take me out In the fortress of my mind…
In a street with broken bottles Would've let you lay me down In a dehydrated desert In a puddle of burning rain You could have poured me out…
…up above While another canyons burning Rain could wash the hill away Easy LA, it's another beautiful day LA, alright, cold like…
…churning Helicopters up above While another canyons burning Rain could wash the hill away Easy LA, it's another beautiful day LA, alright, cold like the desert at night Cold like the desert at night…

The Complete Reprise Sessions (2006), Under Your Spell Again (1998), Radio Live: Gene Clark & Gram Parsons (2014)
…this whole town's insane On the thirty-first floor your gold plated door Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain The scientists say It'll all…
…loud And they lost the best friend they had On the thirty-first floor your gold plated door Won't keep out the Lord's burning rain…
…of insanity A smother precedes The Eden's demise Above us all The black clouds gather The burning rain falls down Encircled…
…stars Above us all The black clouds gather The burning rain falls down…
…[Chris] We would see the sky fall with the burning rain and We would tell ourselves that we would do it again We all fall, we all…
…would see the sky fall with the burning rain and We would tell ourselves that we would do it again We all fall, we all fall When the sun falls, we all fall again (x2) [Hook] (We all fall, we all fall) x4…
A dying sun hangs in the sky The great machines they bled and cried Laughing in the burning rain No one to love nothing…
…hangs in the sky The great machines they bled and cried Drowning in the burning rain An angry man without a name Chorus: I can't move…
…fades Shine your burning rain Hell born in a bubble Silent promise of a volcano …is about to burst Leave…
…burning rain Hell born in a bubble Silent promise of a volcano …is about to burst…
…evil liar Ascend the stairs to the stars Freeze to death upon the barbs Ice and fire Burning rain, earthly desire Descend…
The fires of Hell are churning Ice and fire Frozen hail, evil liar Ascend the stairs to the stars Freeze to death on the barbs Ice and fire Burning…
…rain, earthly desire Descend the steps into the pain Disintegrate within the flames Ice and fire…
…a fight And looking at the sky, there is no pain See the stars all falling down like burning rain They were fired…