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1. What words come next in this R.E.M. lyric?
"The bull and the bear are marking their territories"
2. Read the REM lyrics below and pick the line that comes next.
"I forgot my shirt at the water's edge
The moon is low tonight
Nightswimming deserves a quiet night"
3. What line correctly completes the REM lyric quoted below?
"I had a mind to try to stop you
Let me in, let me in
I've got tar on my feet and I can't see"
4. Given the REM lyrics that follow, which line comes next?
"You might have laughed if I told you
You might have hidden a frown
You might have succeeded in changing me"
5. Read the REM lyrics below and pick the line that comes next.
"Hey, kids, where are you?
Nobody tells you what to do, baby
Hey kids, shake a leg"
6. What line correctly completes the REM lyric quoted below?
"If I have a bag of rocks to carry as I go
I just want to hold my head up high
I don't care what I have to step over"
7. What words come next in this R.E.M. lyric?
"I don't know why you're mean to me
When I call on the telephone
And I don't know what you mean to me"
8. Read the REM lyrics below and pick the line that comes next.
"Me, my thoughts are flower strewn
Ocean storm, bayberry moon
I have got to leave to find my way
Watch the road and memorize"
9. What line correctly completes the REM lyric quoted below?
"I used to think, as birds take wing
They sing through life, so why can't we
We cling to this, and claim the best"
10. Read the REM lyrics below and pick the line that comes next.
"My head's on fire with high esteem
Get drunk and sing along to Queen"
11. Given the REM lyrics that follow, which line comes next?
"I've watched the stars fall silent from your eyes
All the sights that I have seen
I can't believe that I believed I wished that you could see
There's a new planet in the solar system"
12. Pick the line that correctly completes the REM lyrics shown below.
"A paper weight, junk garage
Winter rain, a honey pot
Crazy, all the lovers have been tagged"
13. What line correctly completes the REM lyric quoted below?
"This storm it came up strong
It shook the trees
And blew away our fear"
14. Read the REM lyrics below and pick the line that comes next.
"She's a sad tomato, she's three miles of bad road
Walking down the street, will I never meet her?
She's a real woman-child"
15. What words come next in this R.E.M. lyric?
"Let's play Twister, let's play Risk. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah"
16. What line correctly completes the REM lyric quoted below?
"Throw your love around
Love me, love me
Take it into town"
17. Read the REM lyrics below and pick the line that comes next.
"Let it rain, rain, rain
Save me from myself again
Wash away my ugly sins
Opposing thumb, dorsal fin
That monkey died for my grin"
18. Given the REM lyrics that follow, which line comes next?
"I never understood the frequency, uh-huh
You wore our expectations like an armored suit, uh-huh
I'd studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines"
19. Read the REM lyrics below and pick the line that comes next.
"Will you live to eighty-three?
Will you ever welcome me?
Will you show me something that nobody else has seen?
Smoke it, drink, here comes the flood"
20. Pick the line that correctly completes the REM lyrics shown below.
"Every whisper of every waking hour
I'm choosing my confessions
Trying to keep an eye on you"
21. What line correctly completes the REM lyric quoted below?
"If you could see yourself now baby, the tables have turned
The whole world hinges on your swings
Your secret life of indiscreet discretions
I'd turn the screw and leave the screen"
22. Read the REM lyrics below and pick the line that comes next.
"You want the greatest thing
The greatest thing since bread came sliced
You've got it all, you've got it sized
Like a Friday fashion show teenager freezing in the corner"
23. What words come next in this R.E.M. lyric?
"When the day is long
And the night, the night is yours alone
When you're sure you've had enough of this life"
24. Pick the line that correctly completes the REM lyrics shown below.
"If I ever want to fly, Mulholland Drive
I am alive
Hollywood is under me, I'm Martin Sheen"
25. What line correctly completes the REM lyric quoted below?
"But life sometimes, it washes over me
Washes over me
Close my eyes so I can see"
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