Don't stick in the pipe, Michael Stipe

Den nye plade med R.E.M. - H.Ø.: Hastige Øjenbevægelser - Collapse into Now: absolut okay sange med ret fantastiske tekster, ekset fyndige og fint enigmatiske, og denne gang har Michael Stipe flere steder gang i noget henrevet rim&remse-gøglerisk, to eksempler, fra "Every Day is Yours to Win" og "Mine Smells like Honey":

with the walk and the talk
and the tick tack clock
with the rock and roll
and the bridge and the toll
with the brilliance and the light
and the stink and the fight
and the road ahead of you

i cannot tell a lie
it's not all cherry pie
but it's all there waiting for you, yeah you

dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper
climb a mountain, climp it steeper, steeper
dig a hole, dig it deeper, deeper,
track a trail of honey thorugh it all

- bestig et bjerg, bestig det højere højere
syng en sang, syng den støjere, støjere