Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "you can go down but you can't get back up. not without losing something."

• I get knocked down, but I get up again
• I can't get published, but this crap can
• I can get away with murder, but I can't get you out of my head
• Can't speed up, can't slow down - all we can do is follow these damn dogs
• I have to get up early and do laundry so I can wear something nice to the weirdo sex club
• the good in others can take us where we can't go alone
• I should ask my barber where he gets his hair cut, then go there and slowly make my way up the chain
• I can burn the hearts of the damned, but I can't stop the burning I feel for you
• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• People can get stuff here that they can't get anywhere else.
• I can't get a girlfriend but my dog has a harem
• Having gotten myself into a position where I can have my cake and eat it too, I feel a strong compulsion to get up from the table
• I can't stand up for falling down
• The mites go up and the tights come down
• I've fallen and I can't get up!
• Once and somewhere far away I might have found peace, but now I can't live without this city.
• we can give up, but the world never will
• The nail that sticks up gets hammered down
• Get Up, Jack! John, Sit Down!
• Why mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down
• Can I go back to sleep now?
• follow us into the black, so far that we can't get back
• I can lie to the face of the devil himself, but I can't fool you.
• I can't remember when I fell but I love it down here
• You can bear arms, but you can't bare breasts
• You can take the mall out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the mall
• I can make you howl. And vice versa. Let's get down to business.
• Money can't buy happiness but the lack of it can cause a lot of misery
• Can I play with your breasts? Yes, but don't get out of the yard.
• When you can almost recognize her face, but you can't remember her name
• We All Get Old, But We Never Grow Up
• Memories aren't only in your head if you can't walk down a road without having them.
• even if I can't forgive, I can still let go of it
• it's like something big is happening right in front of us but we can't see it
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• Fall Down Seven Times Get Up Eight
• Go get your wings, the rain is letting up
• you can't you can never be sure. you die without knowing.
• when i wake up i can't remember what it was. it's so hard to smuggle something out of a dream.
• Help! I'm noding and I can't get up!
• lots of small things can fill up a day without you even being aware of it
• i always want to go back. but i don't know if it's time yet. i have some things i have to do.
• I can slaughter my way through Hell, but I can't kill these feelings for you
• Having gotten myself into a position where I can have my cake and eat it too, I feel no compulsion to get up from the table
• you can't change the world, but you can change the facts
• Nowhere to go but down
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• You can run, but you can't hide
• you can touch the sun but you can't take it with you
• I'm at the station, but I can't get on the train
• Necromancers really lift your spirits, but the dead can bring you down
• Ghosts can laugh, but they're already dead
• Can't nothin' fail but a try
• Some days are magic, and I can do anything. The other days, I just have to wait, and hope it comes back.
• Yeah I can love my fellow man; but I'm damned if I'll love yours.
• I've given up believing in anything but coffee and fishnet stockings
• I may have cellulite, but I can still put my ankles behind my head
• But can you imagine what that would do to all those juggaloes?
• echoes of her glisten in your eyes; i also tear but without linger
• we are trying to get a message back through the stargate
• Sure, as soon as you get me back on an orbital platform
• You beat it in me, that part of you/But I'm gonna split us back in two
• I had names for all of those places, but I can't remember them
• I may be lying in the gutter, but I am looking up at the stars
• you can close your eyes but not your ears
• I know it's stealing, but sometimes someone else can say it better than you ever can.
• 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.
• 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
• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
• You can put your boots in the oven, but that don't make them biscuits.
• Be patient, you will get your patent. And they will pat you on the back.
• Sororities are nothing but social crutches
• How can I help but use your eyes as a means for self-asphyxiation?
• Get back to me
• I appreciate your concern for others, but I need to get all my ducks in a row first.
• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• I'm sorry, but we can't watch the rest of MacBeth until it is censored
• Commit it then to the flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion
• With or Without You... but I prefer the latter
• They blew up the world, but what really pisses me off
• If you can't help it, fuck it!
• I don't have a soul. But something still hurts.
• I will have her forever but I can't touch her
• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• that moment of panic when you flush the toilet but nothing goes down
• forever falling, but never losing altitude
• but the worm ended up killing them too
• But you can't take the Jungle out of the Tiger
• like you're blind but still can see
• Can't imagine why, but I feel like dancing
• Backed Up Outback (user)
• Go back for seconds
• i've been trying to get back to the center
• something in me says whatever, and it brings me back to you
• Don't litter, but go ahead and throw your cigarette butt on the ground
• This terrain is constantly changing, but if you look closely, you can find the patterns
• My 486 almost runs Debian now, but I can't play Doom!
• Go back to Africa
• I feel like shit today, but I can always feel worse tomorrow
• You can, but you may not
• Maybe it's bad manners, but you still can't buy my baby
• If you could go back in time and kill Hitler, would you?
• I can see three corners from this corner. Two's a perfect number. But one?
• We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeves
• I love you but I have to let you go
• This Star Wars sheet may be worth something, but I just need a tablecloth
• the water can kill you, but the beer won’t
• (Don't Go Back to) Rockville
• Actually, I went to bed this morning, sometime, but we can gloss over that.
• I know it's boring to go on about it, it bores me to sleep, but what the hell, why doesn't it fade
• But can you still cry like a child?
• 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.
• I can cast Zulthon's Glowing Rings, but I cannot cast you from my heart
• I bind these books, but I can't write in them; I just can't
• You can say the train isn't real but it's still going to sting like a son of a b
• New York I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down
• You're voting this sucka down now, but I'm going to laugh
• The bastards got me but they won't get everybody
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• I don't believe in God or the soul but these machines can make me cry
• In Which Ethel Gao Gets Off His Butt and Accepts the Call
• I would've suggested just shooting Cupid down, but Faust would’ve objected, so we stuck with the net
• 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
• Cemeteries are boring, but I can't seem to stay away from this one in particular.
• I cannot produce a definitive list of everywhere I have been, but I can say that I have seen a whole lot of nowhere
• But can a robot love.
• Sorry to eat and run, but I've got to go stop Lincoln from killing Hitler in his crib
• Mr. Potato Head Sprouted. He got moldy. Now he's all dried up, but he's still up in the cabinet.
• I'll pretend I just cursed myself by saying this, so when it doesn't happen I have something to fall back on other than you
• finding my way back to sanity again, though I don't really know what I'm going to do when I get there
• I got your back but you're best to watch your front
• I don't want to go back to work
• Backing up your Windows registry file
• I'd love to go back to the late 80's and tell them about our time
• 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.
• Something Childish, but Very Natural
• Things people put up their butts
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• You need a license to have a dog, but any idiot can have a child
• You're laughing now, but I'm voting this sucka down
• our backs are strong. we can carry this world.
• But seriously, a tragic thing happened down the street
• You can pulp a story but you cannot destroy an idea.
• It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train
• Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel
• 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
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• Think of something you always wanted to do, but are afraid of. Do it today.
• There but for the grace of God go I
• but mr can you maybe listen there's
• Things you don't want to hear (but will) when you get into bed with a girl
• All right. She can fly circles around Uranus, but where's the bathroom?
• They may take our car keys, but they'll never take our freedom
• Something everyone has done but nobody knows what to call it
• You cannot stop the waves, but you can learn to surf
• You can play with my ex-girlfriend, but treat her like the lady that she is.
• I've never seen a glacier up close, but I've touched your hand. It felt so cold.
• It did not get nicer, but it sure got a hell of a lot more honest
• So says the preacher man, but... I don't go by what he says
• She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• 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!
• It is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul.
• Quick, put your shirt back on before the cop gets here
• When you have a trip planned, but don't go, you need to cancel your reservations
• 1991-96 were more fun years, but I'll likely get more accomplished in the year 2000 alone
• Problems that go away by themselves come back by themselves
• I wanted to show you something, but the verb sucked
• You're not laughing now, but I'm voting this sucka up
• I didn't read it but I want to get into the author's pants
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• Cheers, my lips have frozen but hemlock goes down easy
• It's like this train. It can't run anywhere but where its rails take it.
• back up
• I Won't Back Down

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