The Time is Ripe to Rhyme with Stipe

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1. What line correctly completes the REM lyric quoted below? "Beside yourself if radio's gonna stay Reason: It could polish up the grey Put that, put that, put that up your wall" The cow in the barn, the horsey in its stall In ten years maybe I'll know more A people headed for a fall That this isn't country at all

2. Pick the line that correctly completes the REM lyrics shown below. "Another chance has been engaged To throw Thoreau and rearrange You are following this time" You will see the real sublime (blow your horn) The music's yours, the song is mine (blow your horn) I beg you not beg to rhyme (blow your horn) And Josh here knows we'll all be fine (blow your horn)

3. What line correctly completes the REM lyric quoted below? "I fell asleep and read just about every paragraph Read the scene where gravity is pulling me around Shift the swaying river's shift" Tab Hunter, Montgomery Clift Just like its water you're adrift Oceans fall and mountains drift A gumdrop forever stuck in my hair

4. Given the REM lyrics that follow, which line comes next? "We are agents of the free I've had my fun and now its time to" Go enlist and be like me Serve your conscience overseas Do my duty on my knees Stick my head in a hive of bees

5. What line correctly completes the REM lyric quoted below? "Gardening at night, Gardening at night, Gardening at night The neighbors go to bed at ten Call the prayer line for a change The charge is changing every month" And getting very strange They said it couldn't be arranged I can see it from the stage Just ask Buster over there

6. What line correctly completes the REM lyric quoted below? "The other night I dreamt of knives, continental drift divide" Through the mountains, ten miles wide So grab your sled and take a ride Don't know what's going on inside Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein

7. Given the REM lyrics that follow, which line comes next? "The map that you painted didn't seem real He just sings whatever he's seen Point to the legend, point to the east" Beware that mythic, scary beast Trying to understand what I mean Set the table, have a feast Point to the yellow, red and green

8. What line correctly completes the REM lyric quoted below? "Birdie in the hand for life's rich demand The insurgency began and you missed it I looked for it and I found it" And next thing you know I'm on Letterman Miles Standish proud, congratulate me Maybe if you looked for it you'd find it too Not bad, huh?

9. Pick the line that correctly completes the REM lyrics shown below. "Did you never call? I waited for your call These rivers of suggestion are driving me away The trees will bend, the cities wash away" The city on the river there is a girl without a dream An orange pecan, a lemon drop, a cheap cigar, a letter box Flow into the ocean & never meant to stay It wasn't ever meant to be and I don't care anyway

10. What line follows these R.E.M. lyrics? "Let's put our heads together And start a new country up Our father's father's father tried" And we recoil at the sight Erased the parts he didn't like Along the way he lost his mind Over the objections of his bride

11. What line correctly completes the REM lyric quoted below? "He piloted this song in a plane like that one She is selling faith on the Go Tell crusade Locomotive 8, Southern Crescent, hear the bells ring again" Green grass, small town, city all approach Heading back to where we've already been Field to weed is stricken thin Steel rails and hissing steam glide from view down the track

12. Given the REM lyrics that follow, which line comes next? "In the light I saw quite a scene there It's what I want, hurry and buy, all has been tried, follow reason and buy Try to put that in this heat it's all wrong" Cannot wear that on your sleeve, it's all wrong, it's all wrong Supposed to be better to give than receive, but it's all wrong, it's all wrong No reason ever to believe, it's all wrong, it's all wrong Johnny wants to achieve and he's all wrong, he's all wrong

13. What line correctly completes the REM lyric quoted below? "There's the progress we have found (when the rain) A way to talk around the problem (when the children reign) Building towered foresight (keep your conscience in the dark)" On a road to nowhere (and we think it's a lark) Isn't anything at all (melt the statues in the park) The ground grows far beneath us (and the view looks oh so stark) Is hardly insight (not a way to leave a mark)

14. What line follows these R.E.M. lyrics? "Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for a bus Going to place that's far, so far away and if that's not enough Going where nobody says hello, they don't talk to anybody they don't know" You'll wind up in some factory that's full time filth and nowhere left to go Going where lifeless people sit doing nothing like rolling hills of tombstones in a row And now I have to end this call, gotta go play the 10:30 show Going's what you want to do, for god's sake listen when I tell you not to go

15. What line correctly completes the REM lyric quoted below? "If you are confused check with the sun Carry a compass to help you along Your feet are going to be on the ground" Your words will echo the sound that I sound Your head is there to move you around Like a baseball player on the pitcher's mound Standing ten feet tall like a man of renown