10000 Maniacs: "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 thats far, so far away and if thats not enough

Going where nobody says hello, they dont talk to anybody they dont

Know

Youll wind up in some factory thats 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

Youll be coming back before too long



Dont go back to rockville

And waste another year



At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend

I dont care if youre not here with me

cause its so much easier to handle

All my problems if Im too far out to sea

But something better happen soon

Or its gonna be too late to bring you back



Its not as though I really need you

If you were here Id only bleed you

But everybody else in town only wants to bring you down and

Thats not how it ought to be

I know it might sound strange, but I believe

Youll be coming back before too long