Findings:
- Before you, there was me
- Before inertia, there was impetus
- I was me before being me was cool.
- Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
- We must get there before dark, follow me
- There was no one waiting for me...
- Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
- There was a time before
- There was a man with tongue of wood
- Somebody Up There Likes Me
- There's someone in my head but it's not me
- There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
- The rock under my foot that told me I was real when I was an adult
- choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep
- He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
- and there was this girl
- She was an intellectual prostitute, seducing me with profound truisms
- There is nothing left for me there, except for all that I left behind
- This node was made for you and me
- the space was filled with love like light and that made me shine as well
- there are people who are gone but wanted me to be happy
- He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
- You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
- 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 was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
- There once was a girl named Irene
- There was a little girl
- Cybersex before it was cool
- So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
- But beauteous fields lie just before me
- Is it me or are there more bisexuals these days?
- I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
- There is a panther stalks me down
- There is no real me
- it was years before they met again, by chance
- It wasn't so much a trip down memory lane as it was me carjacking someone's memorymobile and speeding off down the freeway, but I digress.
- Why I politely asked the contemporary lit major I was dating to stop writing me love letters
- bringing me back to when less was worth more
- There was a rose that faded young
- There was once a Man
- There is no one here to stop me from using this silence.
- a grief so strong I thought it would crush me there
- It was better before they came
- There was a man and a woman
- There was a land where lived no violets
- No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
- Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
- Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
- There Once Was a Farmer
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- Unfortunately, there was no applause
- Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
- Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
- There Was a Man of Double Deed
- i was given a mind before i was given a heart
- Before I was consciously thinking of him, my body was
- I was a homeless bum
- What did people use as incidental music before Moby was invented?
- "You've never danced with anyone like me before," the angel and the devil said to one another.
- Before the World was Made
- I Was Lost and You Found Me
- Okay, okay, I confess! It was me! I broke the internet!
- Death was a part of me then, too.
- When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
- I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
- There is a family in me somewhere and some days it tries to tickle its way out.
- There is nothing growing here, in the space between she and me
- So I was balls deep in the guy's ass that night when he turns to me and asks for a kiss. Damn. What a fag.
- I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
- everyone who ever told me i was pretty was lying.
- I wish you could have met me before I became food
- Did you once stand before me without shame?
- I was put on hold for time to gnaw me raw.
- i know you're out there; i just wish you were here with me
- There's nothing you can do to me that Castro hasn't already done
- the cutest baker in the room was making sadfaces at me when i walked out
- There is a part of me inside of you. Take care of it.
- There was an old lady
- There was a time when I was a better person
- When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore
- Sex and death have both spat me out like spoiled milk for the same reason. I was not afraid.
- There's you pushing me in a swing while I watched the stars.
- Was it ever there?
- Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
- There once was a man from St. Paul
- One hour there was sunlight
- The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
- There was a moment of drunken silence
- the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
- There was a cold day
- There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
- I was there
- There was a man who lived a life of fire
- Was There a Time
- Where's the kaboom?
- Before Time Was
- A knock there was upon the door
- There Was No Leak
- There was a baby in China
- In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
- there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- There Was A Friend
- I remember, there was one
- I am at the crossroads in the Garden of Eden, and before me is the Tree of Knowledge.
- Anybody who gets married before the age of 25 scares me a little
- Ain’t there a pen that will write before they die?
- Before Me
- I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
- The cactus that told me my mom was asleep
- I remember the minimizer's playbook before it was killing grandmas
- I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
- I Hear it was Charged Against Me
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
- Stop Me (If You've Heard This Before)
- Fruit cut from the vine, forgot and left to rot, long before it was time
- Advice my father gave me before I left for college
- I saw him lying there leaving me, and I did not know
- There Are Many People Living Inside of Me
- The train that came to me in the dream was already a dead train
- You kissed me. It was sweet and timid.
- I take a long time to ejaculate. Do I have a problem?
- He makes me feel alone just by being there
- I remember when it was me who made her toilet flush
- There's a certain silence driving me mad
- There are a million girls like me out there
- I was raised on red pepper and blood. I am so hot if you strike me I will light like a match.
- Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
- there's nothing quite as wonderful to me as the assorted scars of a woman who's too busy reading to watch where she's walking
- Would you tell me if it was true?
- Somewhere there's a god who wants me
- I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
- The land of our fathers, stolen before we knew it was our own
- What I would do If I knew what was good for me
- If I was the ocean, what would you be to me?
- Somewhere there is a syphilitic prostitute who is going to tell me about India
- man when you are telling me how it was
- I was not made for love songs, and love songs will never be made for me.
- I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader, and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.
- I got the feeling the Fairy Council was mad at me when the president knocked over her coffee to get a better grip on my neck
- Did you think of me before you knew me?
- There is more of me than you imagine
- 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
- She was watching me and I didn’t know it.
- Deliver me from a place where there are no scars.
- There must be something terribly wrong with me. Sometimes I feel like I haven't learned anything.
- it's good for me to go and not have there be words
- in this world there are no equals but some day you will surpass me
- one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
- No shit, there I was
- Would you love me if I was a worm
- So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
- Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
- There was this one great night at Alice's house,
- There was a young lady of Riga
- There is a wound that is healing. There is a season waiting for me. There is a road that is turning. There is a fire still burning.
- I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
- Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
- It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
- There Was a Child Went Forth
- There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- 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
- Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- There once was a chicken named Alice
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