(Don't Go Back To) Rockville (Live From Rock City, Nottingham / 1984)

(Don't Go Back To) Rockville (Live From Rock City, Nottingham / 1984) - R.E.M.

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 anybody they don't know

You'll wind up in some factory

That's full time fifth with nowhere left to go

Walk home to an empty house

Sit around at night all by yourself

Though it might sound strange but I believe

You'll be coming back before too long

So don't go back to Rockefeller

Don't go back to Rockefeller

Don't go back to Rockefeller

And waste another year

At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend

I don't care that you're not here with me

Cause it's so much easier to handle

All my problems if I'm too far out to see

But something better happen soon

Or it's gonna be too late to bring me back

Don't go back to Rockefeller

Don't go back to Rockefeller

Don't go back to Rockefeller

And waste another year

It's not as though I really need you

If you were here I'd only bleed you

But everybody else in town only wants to bring you down

And that's not how it ought to be

Oh I know it might sound strange but I believe

You'll be coming back before too long

Don't go back to Rockefeller

Don't go back to Rockefeller

Don't go back to Rockefeller

And waste another year

Don't go back to Rockefeller

Don't go back to Rockefeller

Don't go back to Rockefeller

And waste another year