Findings:

• We're not trying to fool one another, honestly. We're trying to fool ourselves. Please forgive us.
• As if that were possible, and oh the bitter-sweetness of trying
• We're trying to have a baby
• I'm stopping trying to impress people
• Why are you following me? What I am trying to escape is you.
• They were getting into riot gear as we sipped our wine
• If All the World Were Paper
• Thursdays were created to torture me
• If I Were a Rich Man
• The stories I could tell you, if you only were here to hear
• The day we were married the leftover doves from his days of being a magician hummed little love songs in the attic
• We were both scared of the dark
• The place where the sun doesn't shine
• Technically, it's unlikely you were dropkicked by Jesus
• people were milling around at my wake, whispering and glancing. afterwards, my wife took a twirl with the embalmer
• the linear and the docile go feral at her command. we're on the run from rogue rivers and predatory trains.
• You were the flying car we were promised
• The most dangerous vampires were the ones who were bad at math
• And though it was snowing outside, all within were warm.
• Someone else's prayers were answered in ice
• references to high school in the 80's as if it were a common factor between the author and reader
• Trying to catch one clear promise out of the jittery confused language the night was whispering
• Man trying on shoes
• if yesterday were tomorrow today
• There were people on the Titanic who waved away the dessert trolley
• We're the Replacements
• Treating registers as if they were variables
• Now your songs mean what they were supposed to from the beginning
• And Then There Were None
• Were the Allies Hypocrites?
• The dark riders were not sleeping. They were only resting their eyes.
• Where were you when the Space Shuttle Columbia exploded?
• The clouds were noisy and in the way
• We're all Borf in the End
• When the lilacs were in bloom
• Memories that never were
• And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• If we're both dead, it's not necrophilia anymore.
• We're only whole when we're broken
• Trying desperately to be cool
• Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her
• If my life were an arcade game
• Silly things we believe when we're kids
• The place where you were undone
• I used to know what color your eyes were
• You were here when I fell asleep
• Were there a god!
• If there were no birds
• If we were machines, we'd have the gift of being eternal and I want you to understand
• This morning, while you were still asleep
• When You and I Were Young, Maggie
• Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
• Her eyes were gray like a storm, and even more dangerous
• not if you were the last dandy on earth
• imagine if helping those in need were a competitive team sport
• Trying To Get It Unwound
• The end of history is the nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
• Those were the days
• Face it, we're all a bunch of perverts
• If our genitalia were on our hands
• If This Were a Movie
• It's a jailbreak; we're free.
• In the dream he laughs and says, You thought they were graceful on the ground
• Those men were vanishing
• When Things Were Rotten
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• If we were all part of one big television show, seriously, you'd be a poorly written character
• The Man Whose Teeth Were All Exactly Alike
• So many were frozen, but you we kept warm
• What We're Hiding
• I remember when the buildings were newly fallen
• If there's hell below we're all going to go
• When they realized they were in the desert, they built a religion to worship thirstiness.
• how the pyramids were built
• Squirrels are trying to tell me something
• Trying To Know You Are Gone
• We were never really friends
• We're all in the dark, just looking for the light
• I'd not trouble the universe with such things were it not for tumbling thoughts
• It hurt when we were pruned
• If I were to take over the world with kick-ass robots
• There were many who went in huddled procession
• Two peanuts were walking down the street
• And when she turned into a man, we were so proud
• As it were
• My mother and your mother were hanging out clothes
• On she went. The woods were deep and still.
• we were polite, we did not fall apart
• Must've Been While You Were Kissing Me
• Were we intelligently designed?
• Death arrived shortly thereafter, but we were both far too busy to bother with one another just yet
• We're not so different, you and I
• You'll never quite know how much you've lost until you get what you were looking for
• Tips for geeks trying to pick up girls
• What I'm trying to say is that I may have unconsciously plagiarized this
• You Were on My Mind
• We're all doing just fine
• We're, Where, Were
• Weird foods your parents gave you when you were sick
• What we talked about when we were reading around the subject
• She opened her eyes and spoke in a very normal voice, just as if she were sane
• Where were you that Saturday when it rained?
• We're screwed, my friends
• you were a dream I painted and wished to own
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• The dream people were being assholes.
• the stars were falling just for him
• If every pork chop were perfect we wouldn't have hot dogs
• Everyone is just trying to be farther meta
• Eat shit or puke trying
• We're bigger than Jesus now
• The world would be in much better shape if our leaders were hamsters
• Tenchi, go get some more *hic* TEA!
• Our hearts were hard, but they were warm
• Here were the words I was waiting for, without the part I wanted
• I fixed my body image issues by looking at people as if they were dogs
• Most of the men were disillusioned long before they met her
• Before You Were Punk
• If I were your boss, I'd have fired you
• There were times better than this
• We're doing very well, doctor. Please open the door?
• We No Longer Knew Who We Were
• In all that you never were
• I really came to understand that they were just real people who wanted to live real lives and be treated equally as opposed to, for example, wanting to destroy us.
• As if it were the arm of someone who'd pulled me back from speeding traffic.
• in the end it was better that we were apart
• Some That Were Yellow
• Stop trying to sell your sister
• Trying to read
• I thought paper cuts were like lightning
• We Two, How Long We Were Fool'd
• We've received your resume, and we're entering your credentials in our companywide database
• I wish I were close
• Good thing they were just typewriters
• To Jane: "The Keen Stars Were Twinkling"
• The things I spend my money on didn't exist when my parents were younger
• When we were little kids, running
• Were you 18 in the Spring of 1997?
• If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
• As the clocks were striking the hour
• How we were, before you were
• In the event of an emergency, we're all screwed.
• We're acting happy to stop ourselves from going insane.
• Maybe if we're lucky the person dreaming our lives will wake up
• Fragments of the world are falling away, and we're tripping over the holes they leave behind
• We were so young and dazzled
• Tripping while trying to sneakily check out pretty girls
• I am tired of trying to change the world one person at a time
• We're Only In It For The Money
• If the IRA are "terrorists," so were the French Resistance against the Nazis
• the words were enough
• Son, do you know how fast you were going?
• You were never going to become more than this to me
• We met in a dream, we were falling off a bridge
• How to herd people in public
• C'Etait Toi (You Were the One)
• You couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the directions were printed on the heel.
• While they were revolting, we grew nostalgic
• people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking
• Basking in your warmth, I failed to notice that you were keeping me on the back burner
• No Sir! Nobody is driving, we're all in the back seat!
• But we're leaving St. Francis in the trunk of the car
• trying to crack slashdot
• for me to smell a garden without trying
• Once Were Warriors
• Behave as if there were a God
• Where were you when the Eschaton arrived?
• Why do computer geeks feel they were born in the wrong time?
• What did you love when you were a kid?

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