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, spend all your time, there's 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 here before too long
Don't go back to Rockville (how I wish I could stay)
Don't go back to Rockville (I know it's time to go)
Don't go back to Rockville (how I wish I could stay)
And waste another year
At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend
It doesn't matter if you're not here with me
'Cause it's so much easier to handle all my problems when I'm too far gone to see
But something better happen soon
Or it's gonna be too late to bring you back
Don't go back to Rockville (how I wish I could stay)
Don't go back to Rockville (I know it's time to go)
Don't go back to Rockville (how I wish I could stay)
And waste another year
It's not as though I really need you
If you were here I'd only bleed you
It's just that everybody in this town only wants to put 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 here before too long
Don't go back to Rockville (how I wish I could stay)
Don't go back to Rockville (I know it's time to go)
Don't go back to Rockville (how I wish I could stay)
And waste another year
Don't go back to Rockville (how I wish I could stay)
Don't go back to Rockville (I know it's time to go)
Don't go back to Rockville (how I wish I could stay)
And waste another year
Rockville was written by Michael Stipe & Peter Buck & Mike Mills & Bill Berry.