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There was a time before
there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
There was a time when I was a better person
Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
Was There a Time
Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
There was a man with tongue of wood
The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
There were times better than this
There Was a Child Went Forth
There was a little girl
It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
(and it wasn’t in my time nor yet in your time: but a very good time it was for all that)
No shit, there I was
His collection of substances that should not exist was stolen. The thieves then killed themselves 1000 times over.
A knock there was upon the door
There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
Then you could make out every time there's a Jewish holiday!
A long time ago, under the shady tree in my yard, I was dead
Dawn was a lucky time to give birth
So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
I lived in interesting times, came to the attention of those in power, and found what I was looking for.
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
There was a land where lived no violets
No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
Somewhere there is a syphilitic prostitute who is doing time
There are times when they seem to be right
There suddenly did not seem time enough for everything.
relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
When I was young Time had no wings
If all you picked up tonight was this node title, it's time you went to a Brit nodermeet
He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
I take a long time to ejaculate. Do I have a problem?
There was once a Man
When I was 21, he was building a Time Machine
There is no time paradox
Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
There was a man and a woman
Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
There once was a girl named Irene
Before you, there was me
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.
there's a first time for everything
the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
There was no one waiting for me...
There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
Where's the kaboom?
Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
There is creativity and craft, in all peoples and all times
Let there be another next time
The real reason pi was never calculated to a high precision in ancient times
That time I was almost killed by scary cult children
There was an Old Man on some rocks
Nostalgic for a time that I never experienced and for a person I never was
God was in the west too, at one time.
The first time I knew I was different
There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
There will be time, there will be time, to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
the last time I clobbered a human soul it was over a red-nosed girl and a schoolbook in County Derry
There was a young lady of Riga
unfortunately, his entire corpus was composed in English, and so has been lost to the ravages of time
for a long time i was afraid i would forget; now i'm afraid i might not
Some time when I was a teenager
(because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
There was a rose that faded young
Right there a song became a soundtrack for this space in time
That Time Zeph Was A Criminal
He stretched out his arms but she was not there
There Was a Man of Double Deed
and there was this girl
There was a moment of drunken silence
Was it ever there?
I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
There is a different time scale
Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
There once was a man from St. Paul
One hour there was sunlight
He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
I remember, there was one
There Once Was a Farmer
There was a man who lived a life of fire
I was there
There was this one great night at Alice's house,
there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
There was a cold day
Before inertia, there was impetus
There Was A Friend
There's a time and a place
Unfortunately, there was no applause
Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
There's nothing sadder than an unemployed stripper with a sick car at Christmas time
There was a baby in China
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.
Once there was a way...
There was always the blue of you
nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
there's not much time, the blush in the sky begins to fade
There Was a Desert in My Head
There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
She was locked in time
Last time I was in Chicago I broke my ass
There was an old lady
there's a time and place for mercy
This is the time. The time was now. And now is then. This was the time.
When I Was Born for the 7th Time
There will be time
The first time I saw him was I emit tsal ehT
At that time I was taken up with alchemy
Fruit cut from the vine, forgot and left to rot, long before it was time
Where was her angel all those times the sky clouded over
Before Time Was
There Was No Leak
Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
It was too late by the time the robots came and I couldn't, I just couldn't
Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
Most of the time I just sit there, waiting.
Last time I checked, Buddha was not just some lameass winamp skin for Jesus
the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
The time they fantasize about was built on a lie
I was put on hold for time to gnaw me raw.
I was a teenage time traveling combat waitress
There once was a chicken named Alice
There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
You can't get there from here
IN THE GRIM FUTURE OF HELLO KITTY, THERE IS ONLY WAR.
You will know your action. You are present there, not thinking of somewhere else you ought to be.
Like there's no tomorrow
Why is there no Nobel Prize in Mathematics?
There need to be better terms in English for "significant others"
There is no friend anywhere
I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
There are no transitional fossils
In any world in which i was your friend for even a day, i am grateful.
There are worse things than to have a great injustice done to you
all the cute guys will be there
There is no strategy in StarCraft
There's a story behind it
Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
The more laws there are, the more crime there is
There is only one electron
At Least There is Racing
there's good and bad in being a database administrator
Why there hasn't been much hooliganism in holland during Euro2000
The Party Over There
If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
there's water on Mars!
Be a problematic duck over there
there is more breeze in the suburbs of the South
For every set there exists a larger set
There All the Honor Lies
There's no such thing as normal
Pop music is irrefutable proof that there is in fact a Hell
You weren't there

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