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• I can't remember when I fell but I love it down here
• The good guys and the bad guys were on the back of the boat and I swear I only turned my back for a MINUTE but when I came back, they'd killed Mozart.
• I can't remember when it happened (only that it did)
• when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
• Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
• I've never seen a glacier up close, but I've touched your hand. It felt so cold.
• When you can almost recognize her face, but you can't remember her name
• When the principal laughs so hard he can't suspend you
• But lately, I've been too tired to care
• You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore
• Looking like a pirate is fun but only having one eye annoys me
• Are you such a fucking loser you can't tell when you've won?
• Women are from Earth, but men only wander it
• I don't even know when I am being sarcastic anymore
• you can't change the world, but you can change the facts
• I can't have an original idea anymore
• What people talk about when they can't think of anything to talk about
• Only at Chuck E. Cheese's, in the small hours with a gun in my hand, do I feel truly alive
• When you can't talk about what your sexual needs are
• I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
• Words we can't say anymore
• You can't go there anymore
• I can get away with murder, but I can't get you out of my head
• my p166 isn't so cool anymore
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• There are women and tender children where those shells fall, but war is war.
• I'm sorry, but we can't watch the rest of MacBeth until it is censored
• You gave me your hand, I gave you my fist
• buildings so tall you can't even see the tops of them
• I'll be happier when the rain stops. But I know I'd be miserable if it never rained again.
• Days go by like sweet summer breeze; I don't know I... can't feel them anymore
• When she woke up, her hands were still dreaming
• Seriously, I can't speak French, so can we just skip to the love-making part?
• I considered cutting my toenails, but they're my only natural defense
• How to assassinate a third world despot with only a butt plug and a litre of raspberry coulis
• It’s memories that I’m stealing, but you’re innocent when you dream
• We once played this same game, but with only our words
• I will have her forever but I can't touch her
• You can bear arms, but you can't bare breasts
• It will only make our insides burn until we are nothing but ash.
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• it's like something big is happening right in front of us but we can't see it
• I can lie to the face of the devil himself, but I can't fool you.
• Cemeteries are boring, but I can't seem to stay away from this one in particular.
• that moment of panic when you flush the toilet but nothing goes down
• some people touch it, but they can't hold on
• I write you, when I can't have you near me.
• Hand over fist
• When you just can't win
• We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens.
• You can't rant when you're not angry
• Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and hard radiation
• May your only son strike you down
• i can't love you anymore
• you can't love him anymore.
• speak only when spoken to
• But the fire doesn't sing to them anymore
• What do you do when nobody cares anymore, not even yourself
• So while Faust is busy trying to wipe the blood off his face and Shorty's trying to claw his eyes out, I mosey away and try my hand at storming the castle
• This is what happens, son, when you let your wife's green lung get out of hand
• Things we say and do when we can't tell the truth
• My 486 almost runs Debian now, but I can't play Doom!
• Butt Wars
• So says the preacher man, but... I don't go by what he says
• On the one hand my life is in danger, but on the other hand, I'm getting really stoned
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• I've lost my memory but I have ink, so.
• Maybe it's bad manners, but you still can't buy my baby
• So many were frozen, but you we kept warm
• i can't smoke with you anymore
• I am in love with so much more than your body heat, but let's start there
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• Once and somewhere far away I might have found peace, but now I can't live without this city.
• My soul is in a million pieces. I tried to collect most of them, but some are missing, and the ones I have don't fit together anymore. Feel free to take a piece or two.
• I don't want my magic anymore. It has only caused me problems.
• You haven't seen it and you don't understand. I have malice. I have cruelty. The little fire that's always been inside me isn't so little anymore.
• I can't see your planet in the sky anymore
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• An army of slippers but only two feet
• When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore
• and but so
• but these are only ripples
• Over time, the metaphor becomes literal. Eventually, we will wish for the figurative meaning, but left with only the chilling reality.
• but the only power i truly have is the strength to let it go
• before the internet when teen had REAL relationship the boy could look at the girl and judge the diameter of her thorax with his feelers and determine whether the mating ritual could commence but NO MORE. evil woman use her computer sorcery
• I bind these books, but I can't write in them; I just can't
• I can't get a girlfriend but my dog has a harem
• don't just wait for it, but you can only wait for it
• Why airplane doors can't be opened mid-flight
• so pretentious I can't even breathe
• On what it is like to be so crazy you can't sleep
• I'm so pissed I can't stand up
• Out of practice but my heart hurts so
• Memories aren't only in your head if you can't walk down a road without having them.
• follow us into the black, so far that we can't get back
• The feeling you get when you hold someone's hand
• When aloneness makes a fist
• Can God create a boulder so large He can't have anal sex with it?
• I used to fly like peter pan, all the children flew when I touched their hands
• When I tell stories about you I have to use my hands
• What you should REALLY do when you have too many votes on your hands.
• Even your mother will probably bite your tree hand when you destroy all gravity
• She didn't wave goodbye so much as slightly raise her hand
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• A guitar is easy in his hands / so is an airplane / so is a pen
• and when all the stars have fallen one last time and the skies are crumbling into my hands and the sirens are bleeding out on the beaches and the earth fades; you will remain
• These are the only hands I can give
• Only her hands would give her away
• How can I pour your wine while my hands shake so?
• IN THE GRIM FUTURE OF HELLO KITTY, THERE IS ONLY WAR.
• hold my hand when i cannot see
• First in war, first in peace, first in the hands of the local police
• nothing to do but hold the hand of the Buddha and roam
• I had names for all of those places, but I can't remember them
• This one goes out to you - not so much the people in the audience, but more the people in my mind
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• If you can't help it, fuck it!
• This Star Wars sheet may be worth something, but I just need a tablecloth
• Things you don't want to hear (but will) when you get into bed with a girl
• The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his
• Sugar and shit in the same bag; she lost the battle but is winning the war
• When you have a trip planned, but don't go, you need to cancel your reservations
• You can take the mall out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the mall
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• I can't get published, but this crap can
• Push butt: Rub hands under arm
• You can run, but you can't hide
• But life is hard when the written word is your first language
• War is hell but men like it
• I'm so goddamned cruel to you. But you'll never know
• It's like this train. It can't run anywhere but where its rails take it.
• Your hands are in my hair, but my heart is in your teeth
• It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
• Money can't buy happiness but the lack of it can cause a lot of misery
• It wasn't so much what you said, or what I did, but more what you said I did, and what I didn't say at all.
• 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.
• you laugh and then you cry but you're still laughing but you miss her so damn much
• Gods exist but will only talk to those who stay awake after bedtime under the covers.
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• I'm at the station, but I can't get on the train
• He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• It hasn't been so long, but
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• A woman has 30 ways of laughing, but only 1 way in which she cries.
• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• But you can't take the Jungle out of the Tiger
• Your radical ideas about many things have already occurred to others but have never been articulated in a fashion so accessible to current generations
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• So then I tried staring into the abyss, but it got distracted by a weasel and ditched me
• 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.
• i remember reading this but i can't remember if i liked it or not
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• They say time makes things easier but only time will tell
• But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
• So runs my dream; but what am I?
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• I can burn the hearts of the damned, but I can't stop the burning I feel for you
• I can slaughter my way through Hell, but I can't kill these feelings for you
• one kiss: bad for me, but i give in so easily. i'm weak.
• Swooping through the almost silent night with no hands on your handlebars but it's OK
• i can't fit it all in but by god, i will keep trying
• Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
• you can touch the sun but you can't take it with you
• but we turn everything we touch to shit; we just can't let beauty stand
• I would've suggested just shooting Cupid down, but Faust would’ve objected, so we stuck with the net
• Can't imagine why, but I feel like dancing
• Can't nothin' fail but a try
• Real hackers start their own IRC networks so that they can't be traced by the FBI
• How not to faint when you can't move
• When the one you love can't stop doing something you hate
• God can create a stone so heavy even he can't lift it
• This is immensely rewarding when successful, but can be an extremely intensive and difficult thing to develop and practice
• Sometimes, I get so lonely I can't stand being conscious.
• I keep thinking I'm so tough but I rarely care enough to prove it. So am I really tough then? Or does every dog just have its day?
• you only live once, but your life echoes into eternity
• When you get to the top, I know what it'll seem like. But there IS someone there. There IS someone there.
• Music that is either by the Sonic Youth or by some band that is ripping off the Sonic Youth, but you can't tell which

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