Findings:

• it made me sick but kept me warm
• They need food AND water? You didn't tell me about the water part.
• They had been expecting me
• All my friends are nonconformists. They all dress like me.
• They hate me because I'm beautiful
• they don't know what they'd do without me
• They are telling me it is time to go
• I do not think that they will sing to me.
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• if they forget me, I just might disappear
• You turn around and suddenly notice that they are growing up
• I want to strangle the stars for all they promised me
• They grow up. No one told me.
• And They Believed Me!
• They might not need me - yet they might -
• her arms around me
• Wandering about with keys dangling from an oversized shoelace around your neck
• Feminism, as influenced by the world around me
• They had left, but her mascara kept running
• They know me not by name, but numbers
• they only gave me trouble anyways
• They Flee From Me
• I joined the Army in order to die, and they sent me where I could die
• I would love for you to come to me with Christmas lights around your head, late night like a ghost
• The bastards got me but they won't get everybody
• They love me in San Francisco
• They walk around her like she is in danger of breaking
• I could never draw but they made me an artist
• And then they came for me, but the bridge would not ignite.
• I want the stars so bright they make me breathless
• Anonymous Men Think They Can Talk To Me
• They Kept To Themselves, Mostly
• They are building a fence around the sidewalk
• Take a day, plant some trees, may they shade you from me
• They want me for a focus group!
• They asked me to write a letter
• I know they are watching me
• Brought down as White, kept down as Black, brought up as None, left with me
• When people say "All-American", they seldom mean me.
• They Know Me
• They forgot to give me the operating system!
• I try not to eat the bullshit they feed me
• Simple words, simple dreams
• They blew up the world, but what really pisses me off
• They Don't Want Me
• They don't touch me the same way
• I would have tried, but Charlotte kept Charlotte in the world of Charlotte and she barely heard me
• Black People Hate Me and They Hate My Glasses
• They call me Engineer-khan
• 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 around me
• they see in me a man that is empty, in need of love. that will not hurt them.
• They inspire me
• they still come to me even though i don't come to them
• Coyote pups running around in the tea-colored rain, and the gypsy's kids hypnotized me.
• I hope they kill me while I'm standing here, so I can die happy.
• I Love Them But They Don't Love Me
• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
• I felt the heat and cold of the microwave chatter in the air around me
• The thought that kept me awake
• Or he'll just kick me in the face and scream abstract noises and dance around outside in his underwear and have sex with the neighbor's dog and try to fly by jumping off the toilet
• My adulterous thoughts, they fly around the world.
• Everything Quest: You kids stop your fighting or I will turn this car around so help me God
• The tweakers are all around me, demanding tacos and Sudafed
• The voice of God spoke to me. It said, "Lift up everyone around you."
• You're not from around here, are you?
• fool around
• I walk around when I'm high
• sleeping around
• Running around that thing with all the stuff everywhere
• What Comes Around Goes Around
• pelicans fall all around
• Around the World in 80 Days
• Boot the gong around
• Fart around
• Get around
• Sending cash through the mail
• running around in circles
• Hula hoops are round, they're staying round, and they'll be around forever
• Turn around
• Kicking around
• Louse around
• The Department of They
• kluge around
• wound around the axle
• wrap around
• For hanging around with your shiftless friends
• The Kingdom by the Sea : A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain
• wrap your tongues around truth
• All Around the Mulberry Bush
• the double edged comfort of knowing your way around
• Standing around scowling
• Throw your hands (up) in the air, (and) wave them all around like you (just) don't care
• Ring around the Rosie
• Standing around with your teeth in your mouth
• Ring Around the Roses
• Walking around the house naked
• Floating around in a sea of milk clinging desperately to a Cheerio
• Why people put quotes around words on signs
• She ties regrets around her fingers like forget-me-knots
• You're never around when I need you
• Passing the baby around like a peace pipe
• When I look around, I see so much pain that mirrors my own
• What to do with that insane amount of shaving cream you have just lying around
• The worst days in my life seem to revolve around my cars
• The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven
• Tying a sweater around your waist to make a weird kind of kilt thing
• How babies get around
• How to eat your way around the Baltimore beltway, exit by exit: Exit 15
• How to eat your way around the Baltimore beltway, exit by exit: Exit 14
• How to eat your way around the Baltimore beltway, exit by exit: Exit 26
• prancing around nude
• Green Around the Gills
• Green Grass Grows All Around
• Huddled around the story as if it were a fire
• The Shop Around the Corner
• Alligators All Around
• Shop Around
• Overanalyzing promotional posters around school
• All right. She can fly circles around Uranus, but where's the bathroom?
• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• Emergency Burger King maneuver, or: Sliding around a Tri-Met bus
• Around an empty grave
• Getting nervous around girls
• The only significant bit of nonsense I carried around in those days
• You see them driving around, rubbing the sleep out of their eyes
• How Till Eulenspiegel Travelled around with a Skull
• Rings Around The World
• Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate, One Second before Awakening
• Reel Around The Fountain
• I want to be the air around you.
• He called around 5:30
• If you fuck around with nature, nature will fuck around with you!
• Great Days Out Around Cambridge 2001
• Secret places around Georgia Tech
• gonna walk around (user)
• Sailing Alone Around the World
• Clowning Around
• Around nine PM my heart was breaking so I went to bed early to listen to it happen.
• She is in the heartbeat you hear around you, listen
• One sock on (or: Getting caught fooling around by the cops)
• All Around the World or The Myth of Fingerprints
• How to turn around in the street
• Children are the same all around the world
• Knifin' Around
• The walls she had built around herself cracked and crumbled
• Beat around the bush
• Around Alone
• You young people, going around smoking your heroin tablets
• Walking Around
• Race Around the World
• Abort Once Around
• Twice Around
• Around the Fur
• Composing music while bombs are falling all around
• The sky lay around you
• Waiting Around Saturday
• The old hands you’ve baked around hers
• Violent Scenes Around Filling Stations
• Where songs that are played around campfires with a harmonica come from
• In the world I see, you're stalking elk through the forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center
• leaves spiralled around us like a benediction
• A reddish glow is clearly visible all the way around the horizon, but the moon, alas, remains hidden
• Where an old man of Aran goes around and around
• Lame blue poems around one hedgehog
• Russell Crowe: Fightin' Around the World
• the ideas contained within green wax paper, wrapped around roses
• Sex Around the World
• Somewhere around Warwick Avenue
• Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you
• Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal
• Somehow, the cats are still around
• I look around and see only sandals. Looking up I find myself in the presence of Gods.
• Strange similarites of words around the world
• A great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel
• the lake around which are a thousand tiny fires
• Cooking Conversion Table
• The drunker I am, the better I am at pool. Or is that the other way around?
• we can all just be around other people
• I just follow the sun around
• The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
• just another walk around the neighborhood
• just around the corner
• you can put your arms around a memory
• waiting for his arms to fold like wings around her

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