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He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
he taught me to fly then took away my sky
He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms
he touched me then, but I forgot to feel
He stretched out his arms but she was not there
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
I know it's boring to go on about it, it bores me to sleep, but what the hell, why doesn't it fade
My crush asked if he could kiss me
How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
Mr. Potato Head Sprouted. He got moldy. Now he's all dried up, but he's still up in the cabinet.
I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
I may never be queen, but you will never break me
Apple may have bought NeXT, but NeXT took over Apple
he that is not with me is against me
Monkeys to the left of me! Monkeys to the right of me!
I'm up, he sees me, I'm down
He smiles but it's not real.
I'm not going to fire a 2 million dollar missile at a 10 dollar empty tent and hit a camel in the butt
it'd break my heart but if i knew you got away it'd give me peace of mind till the day i die
You don't know me, but someday you will
It is safe to say that I'm going to get my payback if he is anything like me.
the things he left behind
I have no proof that he would ever want to kiss or destroy me.
The stars were bright that night she left me forever
Advice my father gave me before I left for college
For my brother, in the event he finds me
he calls me monster
World, take care of me. You don't owe it to me, but I don't know any better.
She doesn't know what he sees, but sometimes it makes his face beautiful
I used to like it, but it makes me sick to the stomach
I don't believe in God or the soul but these machines can make me cry
he doesn't know, but her eyes widen too far
You say you love; but with a voice
one kiss: bad for me, but i give in so easily. i'm weak.
one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee
Nobody for me but you
My brother never told me not to smoke. He showed me.
How the Old Woman Took Care Of Candide, and How He Found the Object of His Love
They had left, but her mascara kept running
She didn't write like Emily Dickinson, but she did live in a house overlooking a cemetery, and I guess he thought that was important.
I would have tried, but Charlotte kept Charlotte in the world of Charlotte and she barely heard me
He taught me how to smoke
he kissed me for a year and a half
He has redefined me, again and again
I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together
he calls me girly (user)
I will marry only he who defeats me in battle.
you, mourning for what he took
Brought down as White, kept down as Black, brought up as None, left with me
The Girl I Left Behind Me
she, he, and me
I may be cold and calculating, but that doesn't make me a computer
judge a captain not by his shipwrecks, but by whether or not he blames the sea
Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
Looking like a pirate is fun but only having one eye annoys me
It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch
She's smarter than me but she's also more quiet, therefore she has no personality which makes me feel better
love me less, but, love me for a long time...!
There are women and tender children where those shells fall, but war is war.
but you should be right here, right next to me
She might not need me. But then again she might.
He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
They know me not by name, but numbers
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.
I would've taken an axe to it, but I'm pretty sure the dryad would have pulverized me
You beat it in me, that part of you/But I'm gonna split us back in two
there are people who are gone but wanted me to be happy
I like the city, but the city doesn't like me
I could never draw but they made me an artist
I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
I Love Them But They Don't Love Me
To me he is a daisy and I keep trying to count his petals
Somehow he reminds me of my mother
He wakes up everyday, puts an empty gun in his mouth, and pulls the trigger.
it made me sick but kept me warm
I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
Our obsessions almost killed me, but now here we are, talking like normal human beings
He made the stars speak to me in Morse Code
He that is not with me is against me.
I will marry only he who defeats me in Scrabble
All he left her was alone
Seven opening lines if he would ever look me in the eye
He brings me books like flowers
He called me Sarah once
I fall in love with my migraine, every day he seduces me with a kiss.
he tried to kill me with a forklift
The day he gave me a lift
Why Doesn't He Ask Me to Prom?
He cries for me, all these years later. He'll never stop 'til I join him in the grave.
And he noticed my fingers / and asked me if I would play (e2poll)
He just left his body
He Never Told Me My Eyes Were Like Diamonds
He tells me that I could have his heart and I want to take it right then, slip it into my pocket and run
Jesus He Knows Me
There is nothing left for me there, except for all that I left behind
Rapidly advancing dairy technology has left me behind
Shell of Man Left after Afghanistan
You left me, a 36,000 lb truck fish-tailing in the mud. This is not heartbreak. This is better.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
I met him two days ago and now he wants to fly me to Peru
I had no idea what he thought about me.
He Read To Me The Picture of Dorian Gray
Why mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down
I may not have had enough of me but I've had enough of you
They blew up the world, but what really pisses me off
Spikey the Werm may be a Werm, but he's got quite an imagination nonetheless!
So says the preacher man, but... I don't go by what he says
She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
"Excuse me, but could you drop your large backpack somewhere else, please?" A (almost) christmas nodermeet in the East End
Nobody Knows It But Me
The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
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.
Girls possess me but they're never mine.
Perhaps pain will stop me where good sense and virtue have failed
Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me
New York I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down
But beauteous fields lie just before me
The bastards got me but they won't get everybody
He learned to dance from emus but he learned to love from seraphim
He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
Maybe I'm naive but this type of website bugs me
As Guan Yu would surrender to the Han, but not to Cao Cao, I will surrender to you, but not to your desire to control me.
The fire behind their eyes died slowly and silently until nothing but the shells remained
Nah, these random encounters with beautiful strangers won't destroy me at all. But I guess I thought it'd be a good way to die at the time.
The bastards hung me in the spring of '25, but I am still alive.
curiosity killed the cat, but it never hurt me
I told her I could read her mind, but she didn't believe me. I could tell.
Give me chastity and continency, but not yet
So then I tried staring into the abyss, but it got distracted by a weasel and ditched me
He thinks I don't, but I do
"This sandwich is great, but it could be better if it had tomatoes and also gave me super powers."
The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
your fake name is not for everyone but good enough for me
I'm beginning to think that nothing I think or say makes sense to anyone but me
I'm happy but you don't like me
She is a night of dark trees, but he who is not afraid of her darkness will find banks full of roses under her cypresses
Over time, the metaphor becomes literal. Eventually, we will wish for the figurative meaning, but left with only the chilling reality.
I swear I just came here for a sandwich, but do you remember me?
You can complain about athlete salaries all you want, but my voicemail is still empty.
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.
The Tesla Coil made me cry, but I got a free lunch out of it.
but my dreams, they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be
Empty Desires Left to be Filled
But what's stopping me from staring at the stars now?
I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
There's someone in my head but it's not me
He's not cute, as in good looking, but he's got a cute psychosis
in this world there are no equals but some day you will surpass me
Chris and What He Untaught Me
I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
All the empty things disguised as me
they see in me a man that is empty, in need of love. that will not hurt them.
He loves me, he loves me not
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.
To the Memory of My Beloved Master, William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us
He just wanted to give me something he forgot to give me a long time ago
He dreamt he was a bulldozer, she dreamt she was alone in an empty bed
But I'm a good person! Yeah great you wanna help me with this or what?
And then they came for me, but the bridge would not ignite.
Every programmer is incompetent but me.
Show me your art and I will consume even the smallest part of you, he said.
I will marry only he who defeats me in battle
For my father, in the event he finds me
'C' may be for cookie, but that's not good enough for me, dammit!
He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
He Hate Me
You know to me she's but a fetish
I wonder if he ever thinks about me
He makes me feel alone just by being there

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