Findings:

• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• There are worse things than to have a great injustice done to you
• It was one of the worst things I have ever done
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• you could have done better with this letter of yours, miss
• I could do without it, if I knew what it was
• I remember, there was one
• been there, done that
• How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Could Have Me)?
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• Was There a Time
• If we could build things out of concepts, I'd have pants made of lust
• These papers do not show what I have done
• Where the water for the flood could have come from
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• Are you searching to be inspired? Or are you searching to be amused, be content, be happy? What could you have been?
• I could have been Canadian
• There could still be a reunion of The Band
• you have ghosts. where are they? are they so deep that the light cannot reach them? is there any such place?
• I must have been mental to have done something like that, eh?
• Not that there's anything wrong with that
• I could have been one of a two
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• There was a time before
• Was it ever there?
• There Was A Friend
• If you don't have anything to say, don't say anything
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• The cat (rumination of all that could have been)
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• Everything that there is to do with a guitar has been done
• No man could have the power that is yours and not know it
• Astro City #5
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• if music was a woman you would have a mistress
• Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today.
• Is this what I have been seeking? Or is it an echo, a remnant, a sign that I was wrong?
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• No shit, there I was
• Ghosts must have done it!
• You thought the silent treatment was as cold as it could get
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• and there was this girl
• There was a cold day
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• A knock there was upon the door
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• There Was No Leak
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• It was the least I could do
• I suppose I could have married a World Cup soccer player, but I didn't
• How many lives could have been saved had we just said "Please" more often?
• the only comfort we could ever have
• Could you have danced with me?
• Then you could make out every time there's a Jewish holiday!
• He tells me that I could have his heart and I want to take it right then, slip it into my pocket and run
• I could have known everything for five dollars
• I'll look at this in a year and wonder how I could have been so stupid
• Everything that there is to do with electronic instruments has been done
• Could Muhammad have been autistic?
• I wish you could have met me before I became food
• Upon the hills where day was done
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever here
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• What have the Spanish ever done for us
• And What Have You Done With My Body God?
• If I could be anything I'd be water and I'd be wild about it.
• Sex and death have both spat me out like spoiled milk for the same reason. I was not afraid.
• somehow I felt hopeful, as if I have finally found a ragtag army of fellow fighters, none of whom cared what socks I was wearing
• When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
• i hope there are those in this world who know what a gift it is to have anyone that knows the whole of their heart
• There was a rose that faded young
• there are people in the world who love you, and they will see that this suffering will not have happened in vain
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• Have we done enough to be saved?
• Could I Have Been?
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• My father never made promises he could not keep. My father never promised anything.
• There was a man and a woman
• Is there anything more British than a man sick on beef?
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• There was a land where lived no violets
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• There Once Was a Farmer
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• 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.
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• One hour there was sunlight
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary.
• There was no one waiting for me...
• I was there
• There was a baby in China
• Before you, there was me
• If you're not doing anything bad, you have no reason to fear free speech.
• If you're not doing anything bad, you have no reason to fear government censorship.
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• It could have been me
• if you don't have anything nice to say, a rose still smells as sweet
• Could have beens, should have beens
• Penis for a day
• And All That Could Have Been
• It was all I could do not to cry
• They could have saved Kevin
• All I could remember in the morning is that maybe there were wishing hands involved
• She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
• I was thinking I could clean up for Christmas
• It was a pauper's laugh. It was what I could afford.
• Some days are magic, and I can do anything. The other days, I just have to wait, and hope it comes back.
• Why would he want a writer when he could have a dancer?
• There must be something terribly wrong with me. Sometimes I feel like I haven't learned anything.
• Six reasons -- er, four reasons -- why maybe there could be a (nontheistic) God
• How we could still have a President Trump
• It could have been a Brilliant Career
• Could you be any more of a poseur? 'Changes' was a best-of!
• It's better to regret something you HAVE done
• How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.
• What Have They Done to the Rain?
• Gamesmaster, Gamesmaster, What Have You Done?
• That which I should have done I did not do
• What Have They Done to the Rain
• Oh acid, is there anything you can't do?
• How could you ever have enough?
• If only I'd thought of the right words, I could have held on to your heart
• She moved so easily all I could think of was sunlight
• I can only pray that, when I finally leave, I will have done little enough damage to be totally forgotten
• The way things have always been done
• It was a reasonable chat, I let him have it alone
• Why have there been no great women artists?
• If I were Twenty-One I would determine, even if I could never be anything else in the world, that I would be a thoroughbred
• There's nothing you can do to me that Castro hasn't already done
• There are places in this world where mundane, forgotten things have learned to weave their own magic
• Couldn't you have named it anything else
• I have been alone while I was with many girls
• To think that there are kids today that have never used a joystick
• I think I was watching the most beautiful thing I have ever seen
• what if the most important thing you will ever do you have already done?
• What have you done for me lately?
• When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire
• it's good for me to go and not have there be words
• You have to lie to fall in love. You have to tell the truth to stay there.
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever a bear
• There was once a Man
• There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
• if I was doing it for compliments I would have stopped a lot sooner
• There was a young lady of Riga
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• There was a time when I was a better person
• By evening I will have returned all traces that I was ever here
• So this is Christmas. And what have you done?
• They could have sprung 50 cents for a connector
• There once was a girl named Irene
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• Where's the kaboom?
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• There was an old lady
• The best phone call I could have made tonight

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