Findings:

• Before inertia, there was impetus
• Before you, there was me
• There was a time before
• Was There a Time
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• Once there was a way...
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• There was an old lady
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• Was it ever there?
• There Once Was a Farmer
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• There was a time when I was a better person
• and there was this girl
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• I remember, there was one
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• A knock there was upon the door
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• There once was a girl named Irene
• There was a land where lived no violets
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• No shit, there I was
• Where's the kaboom?
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• One hour there was sunlight
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• There was a cold day
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• There Was A Friend
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• There Was No Leak
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• There was no one waiting for me...
• I was there
• There was a man and a woman
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• There was a baby in China
• There was a little girl
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• There was always the blue of you
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• There was a young lady of Riga
• There was once a Man
• There was a rose that faded young
• it was years before they met again, by chance
• I went to Atlanta and all I got was this lousy pile of junk
• I was me before being me was cool.
• Cybersex before it was cool
• Ain’t there a pen that will write before they die?
• Before the World was Made
• Before I was consciously thinking of him, my body was
• What did people use as incidental music before Moby was invented?
• i was given a mind before i was given a heart
• I remember the minimizer's playbook before it was killing grandmas
• It was better before they came
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• Before Time Was
• Fruit cut from the vine, forgot and left to rot, long before it was time
• We must get there before dark, follow me
• The land of our fathers, stolen before we knew it was our own
• Be a problematic duck over there
• There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth
• There's a woman inside my stereo
• there's a spider in my keyboard
• Not that there's anything wrong with that
• There Are Many People Living Inside of Me
• down in the quarry there is no noise
• There are worse things than to have a great injustice done to you
• Hm... that's strange. There's nothing there!
• I hate Creed--Or how I know there are 52 Advil in my apartment
• There All the Honor Lies
• There's nothing more annoying than to try to rebel against someone who's totally supportive about whatever you want to do
• There will be nobody there to shed a tear
• Everything that there is to do with a guitar has been done
• There's more than one way to skin a cat
• Being There
• There is only one electron
• There's a story behind it
• There is Power in a Union
• There are no stars any more
• there is more breeze in the suburbs of the South
• There are Spirits also in the City
• There are people for everything
• No matter where you go, there you are
• There are as many numbers between 0 and 1 as there are in the set of all real numbers
• There is
• There Is a Light that Never Goes Out
• We knew there would be kissing, and breasts
• A drug that gives instant orgasms
• There's always a catch!
• If God is good, why is there so much suffering in the world?
• There are other things I haven't told you yet
• There's a bear outside the tent!
• there's water on Mars!
• There is no happy ending
• Is there anybody out there?
• How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there
• all the cute guys will be there
• There's an alien in your bag
• Hang in there
• There is no right answer
• There is a girl
• not as good as being there
• There's no such thing as normal
• there is a level in the world beyond the physical
• There's no there there
• There's a Hole in the Bucket
• Hey kids - No hope in dope!
• There is no such thing as emotional healing
• There are more Chinese restaurants in Toronto than in Shanghai
• There Is No Natural Religion
• For every set there exists a larger set
• Everything that there is to do with electronic instruments has been done
• If there's a will, I hope I'm in it
• This is our ool. Notice there is no P in it. Please keep it that way.
• There are no three letter .coms left
• There is no good depression. It's not sexy. It's not fun. It's not the new rock and roll.
• Why there are seven days in a week
• There's a time and a place
• There are no facts
• How many melodies are there in the universe?
• There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
• But there are NUNS watching us!
• There is neither mastery nor slavery except as it exists in the attitude of the soul toward the world
• Is There Something About Bangkok I Should Maybe Know About?
• How much information is there in the World?
• If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
• the god that can be killed was never god in the first place
• There I stood, rambling incoherently into the tin can, you loved it
• There is despair, Mr. President, in faces you don't see, in the places you don't visit in your shining city
• There Is Nothing Left to Lose
• There are no transitional fossils
• there is no existing mythology
• There is infinite hope, but not for us
• There is no strategy in StarCraft
• There's a sucker born every minute
• The more laws there are, the more crime there is
• there's good and bad in being a database administrator
• Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
• He said 'tentacle porn', so I stuck my dick in a toaster and went from there
• There are no atheists in the foxholes
• You weren't there
• there is a reason for the presence of water on my desk
• There is something about airports and bus terminals
• Pop music is irrefutable proof that there is in fact a Hell
• The Party Over There
• Textbooks you save because there's that one chapter in back you refer to every two years or so
• Is there a god?
• Right there a song became a soundtrack for this space in time

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