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There once was a man from St. Paul
There was once a Man
There once was a girl named Irene
There was a man and a woman
I was a free man once, in Saigon
Once there came a man
There Once Was a Farmer
There was a man who lived a life of fire
There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
I am no longer the foolish young man I once was
Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
This Dust Was Once the Man
There Was a Man of Double Deed
There was a man with tongue of wood
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
Once there was a way...
Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
There once was a chicken named Alice
Some say he once killed a man with a guitar string
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.
So I was drinking with the son of Man the other night, and...
He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
There was a young lady of Riga
Before inertia, there was impetus
I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
There isn't much to interpret, just the essence of man laid bare
He stretched out his arms but she was not there
It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
There was a little girl
Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
Of Gods and Men: Who Was This Man Called the Christ?
For every rich man who tries to leave this world for a better one with his fancy tomb surrounded by mourners, there are many more who perish alone in the cold, forgotten by all but God.
I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
Your husband was a great man
The Man Who Wasn't There
Finding air where matter once was
the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
There was this one great night at Alice's house,
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 was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
There was a rose that faded young
I was once young and had a home
Adam really was the first man
Before you, there was me
There Was a Desert in My Head
There was always the blue of you
Unfortunately, there was no applause
there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
There was no one waiting for me...
The Man Who Was (user)
Once you have tasted flight: In defense of manned space travel
My man was shot for his sheep coat
There is Nowhere Left to Go When You're The Handsomest Man in the World
A learned man came to me once
Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
I was the man who never lied. I never lied until today.
There is no man in the sky who cares what we eat and drink and fuck
I once dreamt that I was a c++ program
I once was a clueless young noder
He was a man stuck between the objective and the subjective
Once I helped a man die
That man was a sock puppet on the hand of God.
I was in a blindfold taste test once...
Once was enough
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
Crazy? I was crazy once.
I remember, there was one
There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
No shit, there I was
It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
One hour there was sunlight
He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
There was a moment of drunken silence
There was an old lady
I was a nice guy once
And Man Said, "Let There Be God."
the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
There Was No Leak
There Was A Friend
Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
There was a baby in China
I was there
There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
Somewhere north of Houston, there is a short smelly man that I don't care for
Jesus was a black man
Tribute to the Man Who Never Was (document)
This isn't Vietnam, man. This is Jazz; there are Rules.
The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
He was the kind of man who shacked up for shelter
John 3:16 was said to one man, at night
The Man Who Was Thursday
Man Was Made to Mourn
Victor Burczyki, a man who once bought me a beer and told me this story
man, there sure are a lot of stories
Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
man when you are telling me how it was
I was once stranded on a dessert island
I was once a victim of Catholic schooling
Once, everyone was a computer novice
I once dreamt that I was a line
Leather-bound organizer
I was once stranded on a desert island
I Used to Know a Man Who Killed Me Once a Week
Is there anything more British than a man sick on beef?
The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied
Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
Every molecule in my body was once part of a star
She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
What was once well planned in a mad girls mind, and is now quickly becoming a last minute nodermeet
The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
I was in a commercial once
every noder was once a normal human
what once I was
I was adored once too
Where Once Life Was
There was a time when I was a better person
Love is stored in the memories of what once was
Was it ever there?
Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
and there was this girl
Man was created in God's image
Where's the kaboom?
Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
There Was a Child Went Forth
There was a land where lived no violets
she was once a stealthy ghostship in the fog, now she shines wherever she walks
"He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
A knock there was upon the door
In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
There was a time before
There was a cold day
Was There a Time
God was created in man's image
Well-Manicured Man
The Man of La Mancha
Little Big Man
Impressing a man
Stick it to the man
Old Man Murray
Renaissance man
Repo Man
poor man's thinking
John Cassavettes Was No Help At All
Rasputin: A hard man to kill
Asian Man Records
Sabre Man
man in the moon
God's Gift To Man
The lopside-head man
There once was a man from Nantucket
See a man about a dog

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