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The Time is Ripe to Rhyme with Stipe

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Introduction:
"Michael Stipe's lyrics run the gamut from moving to impenetrable. Here are lyric excerpts from R.E.M. songs from the 1980s. Try to pick the next line, remembering that you can't always count on a rhyme, or logic, when Michael Stipe is involved!"


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"
    I beg you not beg to rhyme (blow your horn)
    And Josh here knows we'll all be fine (blow your horn)
    The music's yours, the song is mine (blow your horn)
    You will see the real sublime (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"
    Serve your conscience overseas
    Do my duty on my knees
    Go enlist and be like me
    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"
    They said it couldn't be arranged
    I can see it from the stage
    And getting very strange
    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"
    So grab your sled and take a ride
    Through the mountains, ten miles wide
    Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein
    Don't know what's going on inside


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"
    Point to the yellow, red and green
    Set the table, have a feast
    Beware that mythic, scary beast
    Trying to understand what I mean


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"
    Flow into the ocean & never meant to stay
    It wasn't ever meant to be and I don't care anyway
    An orange pecan, a lemon drop, a cheap cigar, a letter box
    The city on the river there is a girl without a dream


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"
    Erased the parts he didn't like
    Along the way he lost his mind
    And we recoil at the sight
    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"
    Heading back to where we've already been
    Green grass, small town, city all approach
    Steel rails and hissing steam glide from view down the track
    Field to weed is stricken thin


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)"
    Isn't anything at all (melt the statues in the park)
    The ground grows far beneath us (and the view looks oh so stark)
    On a road to nowhere (and we think it's a lark)
    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"
    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
    Going where lifeless people sit doing nothing like rolling hills of tombstones in a row
    You'll wind up in some factory that's full time filth and nowhere left 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 head is there to move you around
    Like a baseball player on the pitcher's mound
    Your words will echo the sound that I sound
    Standing ten feet tall like a man of renown


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