(Don't Go Back To) Rockville
Looking at your watch a third time
Waiting in the station for the bus
Going to a place that's far
So far away and if that's not enough
Going where nobody says hello
They don't talk to no one they don't know
You'll wind up in some factory
That's full of filth and nowhere left to go
Walk home to an empty house
Sit around all by yourself
I know it might sound strange but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
And waste another year
At night I drink myself to sleep
Pretend I don't care if you're not here with me
'Cause it's so much easier to handle
All my problems if I'm too far out to sea
But something better happen soon
Or it's gonna be too late to bring you back
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
And waste another year
It's not as though I really need you
If you were here I'd only bleed you
But everyone in town only wants to bring you down
And that's how it's supposed to be
I know it might sound strange but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
And waste another year
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
And waste another year
Waiting in the station for the bus
Going to a place that's far
So far away and if that's not enough
Going where nobody says hello
They don't talk to no one they don't know
You'll wind up in some factory
That's full of filth and nowhere left to go
Walk home to an empty house
Sit around all by yourself
I know it might sound strange but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
And waste another year
At night I drink myself to sleep
Pretend I don't care if you're not here with me
'Cause it's so much easier to handle
All my problems if I'm too far out to sea
But something better happen soon
Or it's gonna be too late to bring you back
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
And waste another year
It's not as though I really need you
If you were here I'd only bleed you
But everyone in town only wants to bring you down
And that's how it's supposed to be
I know it might sound strange but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
And waste another year
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville
And waste another year
Credits
Writer(s): Peter Lawrence Buck, Michael E. Mills, John Michael Stipe, William Thomas Berry
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Other Album Tracks
- Gardening At Night
- Radio Free Europe
- Talk About the Passion
- Sitting Still
- So. Central Rain
- (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
- Driver 8
- Life and How To Live It
- Begin the Begin
- Fall On Me
All Album Tracks: Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage: 1982-2011 >
Altri album
- We Are Hope Despite The Times
- R.E.M. - Live from the Pyramid Stage, Glastonbury Festival, June 25, 1999
- R.E.M.'s Top Forty Playlist (according to Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe)
- Up (25th Anniversary Edition)
- The Apologist (Live At The Palace / 1999)
- Losing My Religion (Live At The Palace / 1999)
- Daysleeper (Live At The Palace / 1999)
- Strange Currencies - Single
- Pale Blue Eyes - Live American Radio Broadcast
- New Adventures In Hi-Fi (25th Anniversary Edition)
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