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• There was a moment of drunken silence
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• There was a time when I was a better person
• There was a cold day
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• There was always the blue of you
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• I was there
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• There was no one waiting for me...
• There Was A Friend
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• There was a baby in China
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• I remember, there was one
• There was a rose that faded young
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• and there was this girl
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• Before you, there was me
• And then a terrible silence
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• There Once Was a Farmer
• There was an old lady
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• There's a certain silence driving me mad
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• There is a silence in my heart, and your voice no longer breaks it
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There was a land where lived no violets
• Was it ever there?
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• There was a young lady of Riga
• There once was a girl named Irene
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• 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
• Where's the kaboom?
• Was There a Time
• One hour there was sunlight
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• There was a time before
• There was a man and a woman
• 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.
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• There is no one here to stop me from using this silence.
• A knock there was upon the door
• 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.
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• There was once a Man
• There Was No Leak
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• Once there was a way...
• There was a little girl
• 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 more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• where there is silence, you are as well
• "He was a terrible man," she sobbed, between bites of alimony
• No shit, there I was
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• ghastly (user)
• Radio Silence (user)
• Silence of the Lambs
• awkward silence
• Silence is golden
• The beginning of silence
• Sonnet- Silence
• the politics of silence
• Sounds of Silence
• You know the little things about me that would sing in the silence
• What do you hear in the silence?
• A silence that escapes, how it plagues my wandering thought
• Without words, without silence
• Messiah of Silence
• gone stoic in silence: ash and smoke and the wide sunk mud-iron landscape of forever
• Living in Silence
• Silence in the Night
• The silence after someone leaves
• Leave in Silence
• i only knew when silence screamed
• My hands, a backrub, a cup of tea, my shoulder, my lips, my silence
• National Day of Silence
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Silence
• All dressed in silence, I stared and lived the morning
• In a stretch of suspicious silence
• Song in the Silence
• The Goal of Silence
• A dance in silence
• Silence Bondage
• companionable silence
• Perfect Silence (user)
• GCU Sentient Silence (user)
• silence = death
• Robert Byrd's "A Haunting Silence" speech
• Secret silence through telling secrets
• The Princess No-one Could Silence
• When silence between two people is comfortable
• the cool silence that inevitably follows the vanishing of aeroplanes
• Sometimes at night the darkness and silence weighs upon me
• Screaming silence
• silence (user)
• silence like a cancer grows
• Brotherhood of Silence
• when music is your quest, then both sound and silence are your friends
• Essay on Silence
• words are cheap, but silence is a steal
• And how the silence surged softly backward
• In the dead silence of a night in New York
• When desperate static beats the silence up
• If you can't improve the silence, preserve it
• if I can't have silence
• I shall tell in silence
• She is what happens when silence makes love with night.
• this is what I am doing with the silence
• Translating Silence
• And the silence between them? Like the stars.
• Sleeping In Silence
• A moment of silence for Marcel Marceau
• Silence is conspiracy
• Into Great Silence
• Silence Is A Monster
• silence them by numbers
• in silence, knowledge of the heart
• the silence in the room facing my spine
• Enjoy The Silence
• Silence is sexy
• quiet evening snow blown with silence
• moments of silence
• Passionate Silence
• songs to cover the long silence
• What you find within yourself, in the darkness and silence
• evaporating quietly into the silence
• darkness, emptiness and silence
• terrible
• Ivan the Terrible
• Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
• Alexander the Great and the Terrible, Horrible, No-Good Very Bad Day
• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
• Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances
• The world is not a terrible place
• the god that can be killed was never god in the first place
• Terrible things done by geriatric cats
• Terrible twos
• All the terrible disadvantages an invisible man would have in the world
• Day of the Terrible Cocksuns
• The Terrible Head
• The terrible beauty of an industrial landscape at dawn
• Les Enfants Terribles
• Why the Borg have such terrible fashion sense
• The Terrible Secret of Space

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