Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "Everything was just fine the way it was, and I wish I knew how I got there"

• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• Sympathy for the Mongols & How The Rise of the West was just sheer Dumb Luck
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• Once there was a way...
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• That's Just How He Was
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• Just how perfect was Jesus?
• I worked at summer camp, and all I got was this lousy case of gangrene
• There Was A Friend
• There was an old lady
• 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
• Removed from humanity, I realized I was just another distraction
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• Last time I checked, Buddha was not just some lameass winamp skin for Jesus
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• Was the Black Death really just Anthrax?
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• There was a little girl
• The cult leader poured himself a drink and started on about his plans, and I wondered how the priest was getting on
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• The male libido - or - How I was castrated by the 90's
• Was it ever there?
• There's got to be a way to make it sweeter, a little more like lemon meringue
• Don't try to make the moment last. You can ruin it that way. Just learn to savor it and, when the time comes, learn how to let it go.
• There was no one waiting for me...
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• it was just as if she held her breath for 82 years
• I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
• There Was No Leak
• This was when I knew my childhood was over
• How could anybody know how we got to be this way?
• That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover.
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• There was a land where lived no violets
• How Kissing Was Discovered
• There was a cold day
• How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
• There was a man and a woman
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• 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 man who lived a life of fire
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• she was just the dry smell of gasoline
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• The last girl I dated was a vegetarian. We couldn't go anywhere and so it just didn't work out.
• 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.
• I spent one year in love and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
• You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
• I Dropped Out of School, and All I Got Was This Necklace
• I never even went to Las Vegas, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
• This wasn't how it was supposed to be
• When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
• We've got all this beauty and just enough time to figure out how to destroy it.
• How Candide Was Obliged to Leave the Fair Cunegund and the Old Woman
• There was a rose that faded young
• I was just a supporting character in your fairy tale
• UK's response to 'Extroadinary Rendition': SIS knew US was torturing suspects.
• What I would do If I knew what was good for me
• Jesus was a reactionary reformer, just like Martin Luther in later years.
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
• How my Father was excommunicated from the LDS Church
• There once was a girl named Irene
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• There was a time before
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• How the Earth was destroyed
• I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• I turned Quizro into a Quiet Riot CD, and all I got was this jar of lemon-flavoured pickles.
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• There was a baby in China
• A knock there was upon the door
• How was Trump at Munich?
• you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• hodgepodge was just a one-night stand, apparently
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• There was always the blue of you
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• I don't think I was rude to her, just cold and curt
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• middle of summer how crazy it was
• It was just a crush
• The demon was just under three feet tall
• I wish I was carrying cigarettes
• My way of showing love was consumption
• The Firestone dealership was full to the brim with cars. But I reasoned I would need a boat, since my desire was to go to Ireland. Just then a harsh reminder surfaced; water is expensive in hell.
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• How the West Was Lost
• I was there
• I fried myself in The Finnish E2 Get-Together, and all I got was a hippie song stuck in my head
• i know you're out there; i just wish you were here with me
• I went to Atlanta and all I got was this lousy pile of junk
• I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
• born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• I could do without it, if I knew what it was
• It was too late by the time the robots came and I couldn't, I just couldn't
• I was Christian and all I got was this lousy painting
• I went to Voodoo Donuts and all I got was this lousy concussion
• What if Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong?
• The land of our fathers, stolen before we knew it was our own
• I Kissed "Weird Al" Yankovic and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt
• I did not need it. I was strong. I was steady. I knew what I was doing.
• When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
• How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent Castle and How He Was Driven Thence
• The first time I knew I was different
• I knew it was over the moment I bought those shoes
• The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way
• She knew what she was doing
• (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
• There was a young lady of Riga
• Finding the origin of a Hotmail message
• It was the year 2000. Nobody knew what was coming.
• No shit, there I was
• There was once a Man
• How was the Bible canonized?
• I remember, there was one
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• There was a time when I was a better person
• and there was this girl
• Where's the kaboom?
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• I knew before I met you just how we would end
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• How I was thrown from a car at 45 mph
• How was your trip to London, Dan?
• Was There a Time
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• How America was mapped
• How Eulenspiegel, along with the other boys, was made to eat too much bread
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• How the West Was Won
• One hour there was sunlight
• How was the play, Missus Lincoln?
• There Once Was a Farmer
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep?
• I wish I knew how to quit you
• Charles Bridgeman
• Running a BBS
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• WoOz: 17 How the Balloon Was Launched
• 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
• all I ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• man when you are telling me how it was
• Five minutes after falling off the cliff, I realized how high it really was
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• Before you, there was me
• This is the story of how I was killed in Peru
• just because it was an accident doesn't mean it'll come back to life

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