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(Don't Go Back To) Rockville Lyrics
Artist(Band):R.E.M.
(Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe)
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 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
(chorus)
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 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 sea
But something better happen soon
Or it's gonna be too late to bring *me back
(repeat chorus)
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 *me down and
That's not how it ought to be
Well I know it might sound strange, but I believe
You'll be coming back before too long
(repeat chorus 2x)
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Review about (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
I don't think Mills ever went to Rockville before writing this | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/21/2008
nice little song, but that isn't Rockville Maryland at all. I was born and raised there since 1982. Girl from Rockville - "soul less" is the last term I'd use to describe Rockville. I grew up watching symphonies and shakespeare performed in the old Rockville Town Center on warm summer nights, Hometown holidays, 4th of July on the lawns at Richard Montgomery, etc. This is not a dreary factory town as Mills seems to believe his girlfriend was going to return home to. Seattle is a lot drearier than Rockville ever was.
good stuff | Reviewer: bean | 2/15/2008
REM and some other bands from that area have put out some quality music. It's a shame that era has generally come to pass. Southern influence is apparent in the lyrics and style. This does not simply fit under the "country" genre.
The Diversity or R.E.M. | Reviewer: Robert | 10/25/2007
This is a great song and shows the diversity of R.E.M.'s music, from rockin out to country they can do everything in between as well to a standard 99% of bands can only dream.
Girl from Rockville loves this song! | Reviewer: June STeele | 6/30/2007
I love this song! The line that says "Going where nobody says hello, they don't talk to anyone they don't know." That line totally hits home. I have always thought of Rockville as so "soul less." It seems even more so now that I live in a town with a whole lot of soul, where everyone says hello, the home of Buddy Holly, Lubbock, Texas.
Genuis Even In Their Inside Joke.... | Reviewer: Bob Zeisler | 5/18/2006
What started off as a joke to crack Bertis Downs, their manager at the time, turned out to be arguably the most polished song on R.E.M's second Album, Reckoning. Telling Downs that their follow-up to the immortal Murmur would be a country album, Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Micheal Stipe produced (Don't Go Back to) Rockville, a Nashville-tinged romp replete with Buck on slide guitar, and made all the more authentic with Stipe's natural southern drawl. With the lyrics allegedly inspired by the leaving of a co-ed hottie that was the bands' classmate at the University of Georgia, Rockville withstands the test of time and easily ranks among the best of the legendary band's formidable catelog.
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