10000 Maniacs Don`t Go Back To Rockville Lyrics

Don`t Go Back To Rockville Lyrics

[ original version by R.E.M. ] 

Looking at your watch a third time waiting in the station for a 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 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 
And waste another year 

At night I drink myself to sleep and 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 

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 
I know it might sound strange, but I believe 
You`ll be coming back before too long