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(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville

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Lyrics

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

Copyright © R.E.M./Athens Ltd.

8 Official Releases

(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville (12” Single)
Netherlands – A12-4734
released: 1984-06-00
Label: IRS
Red sleeve.
Has the LP version of (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville.

• 1. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 2. Wolves, Lower
• 3. 9-9
  Live
  live recorded at: 1984-04-20 in Paris
• 4. Gardening At Night
  Live
  live recorded at: 1984-04-20 in Paris

(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville (7” Single)
Netherlands – A-4734
released: 1984-06-00
Label: IRS

• 1. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 2. Wolves, Lower

(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville (12” Single)
Netherlands – A12-4734
released: 1984-06-00
Label: IRS
Blue sleeve.
Has an edited version of (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville.

• 1. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 2. Wolves, Lower
• 3. 9-9
  Live
  live recorded at: 1984-04-20 in Paris
• 4. Gardening At Night
  Live
  live recorded at: 1984-04-20 in Paris

(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville (12” Single)
UK – IRSX 107
released: 1984-06-00
Label: IRS

• 1. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 2. Wolves, Lower
• 3. 9-9
  Live
  live recorded at: 1984-04-20 in Paris
• 4. Gardening At Night
  Live
  live recorded at: 1984-04-20 in Paris

(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville (12” Single)
Spain – ILSA-12.4734
released: 1984-06-00
Label: IRS

• 1. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 2. Wolves, Lower
• 3. 9-9
  Live
  live recorded at: 1984-04-20 in Paris
• 4. Gardening At Night
  Live
  live recorded at: 1984-04-20 in Paris

(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville (7” Single)
UK – IRS 107
released: 1984-06-00
Label: IRS

• 1. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 2. Wolves, Lower

(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville (7” Single)
Spain – ILSA-4374
released: 1984-06-00
Label: Illegal

• 1. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 2. Wolves, Lower

(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville (7” Single)
USA – IR-9931
released: 1984-08-00
Label: IRS
The first presses were pressed on red quiex vinyl.

• 1. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 2. Catapult
  Live

‘(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville’ is also available on

Reckoning (CD Album)
Netherlands – 0777 7 13159 23
released: unknown
Label: IRS
Re-Issue

• 1. Harborcoat
• 2. Seven Chinese Bros.
• 3. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 4. Pretty Persuasion
• 5. Time After Time (Annelise)
• 6. Letter Never Sent
• 7. Second Guessing
• 8. Camera
• 9. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 10. Little America

Murmur / Reckoning (Cassette)
UK –
released: unknown
Label: IRS

• 1. Radio Free Europe
• 2. Pilgrimage
• 3. Laughing
• 4. Moral Kiosk
• 5. Perfect Circle
• 6. Catapult
• 7. Sitting Still
• 8. 9-9
• 9. Shaking Through
• 10. We Walk
• 11. West Of The Fields
• 12. Harborcoat
• 13. Seven Chinese Bros.
• 14. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 15. Pretty Persuasion
• 16. Time After Time (Annelise)
• 17. Letter Never Sent
• 18. Second Guessing
• 19. Camera
• 20. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 21. Little America

BODYCOUNT AT TYRONE’S (Bootleg LP)
BRIG 007
released: unknown
Label: IRS
Recorded: Tyrone\s Athens, 10/4/80

• 1. Just A Touch
• 2. A Girl Like You
• 3. Dangerous Times
• 4. There She Goes Again
• 5. All The Right Friends
• 6. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 7. Body Count
• 8. Hippy Hippy Shake
• 9. Action
• 10. Narrator
• 11. Pretty Girl (Hey, Hey Nadine)
• 12. Gardening At Night
• 13. Scheherazade
• 14. Lisa Says
• 15. Mystery To Me
• 16. (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone
• 17. Permanent Vacation

Can’t Get There From Here (Bootleg LP)
KAXY 002
released: unknown
Label: IRS
Recorded: Live at Hammersmith Palais Ballroom, London 10/28/85.

• 1. Feeling Gravitys Pull
• 2. Harborcoat
• 3. Green Grow the Rushes
• 4. Maps And Legends
• 5. Pilgrimage
• 6. Driver 8
• 7. Sitting Still
• 8. Good Advices
• 9. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 10. Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
• 11. Can’t Get There From Here
• 12. Seven Chinese Bros.
• 13. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
• 14. Old Man Kensey
• 15. Pretty Persuasion
• 16. Life And How To Live It
• 17. Second Guessing
• 18. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 19. Toys In The Attic
• 20. Radar Love
• 21. Burning Hell
• 22. Talk About The Passion
• 23. Little America

Down South (Bootleg LP)
FTP (0010)
released: unknown
Label: IRS
Recorded: Live 1981-82

• 1. White Tornado
• 2. Shaking Through
• 3. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 4. Gardening At Night
• 5. Sitting Still
• 6. Burning Down
• 7. Chained To The Wall
• 8. Ages Of You
• 9. Get On their Way (What If We Give It Away?)
• 10. There She Goes Again
• 11. Laughing
• 12. Just A Touch
• 13. Radio Free Europe

Georgia Peaches Ripe! (Bootleg LP)
REM-7
released: unknown
Label: IRS

• 1. Rave On
• 2. Burning Down
• 3. A Girl Like You
• 4. Get On their Way (What If We Give It Away?)
• 5. There She Goes Again
• 6. Pretty Persuasion
• 7. Body Count
• 8. A Different Girl
• 9. Action
• 10. Narrator
• 11. Hey! Hey! Nadine
• 12. Baby I
• 13. Permanent Vacation
• 14. Radio Free Europe
• 15. Sitting Still
• 16. Dangerous Times
• 17. All The Right Friends
• 18. Shaking Through
• 19. Hey Little Girl
• 20. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 21. Windout
• 22. Gardening At Night
• 23. Scheherazade
• 24. Lisa Says
• 25. Mystery To Me
• 25. White Tornado

Ripe! Georgia Peaches (Bootleg LP)
REM-7
released: unknown
Label: IRS
Recorded: Live at Tyrone\s, April 10, 1981

• 1. Rave On
• 2. Burning Down
• 3. A Girl Like You
• 4. Get On their Way (What If We Give It Away?)
• 5. There She Goes Again
• 6. Pretty Persuasion
• 7. Body Count
• 8. A Different Girl
• 9. Action
• 10. Narrator
• 11. Hey! Hey! Nadine
• 12. Baby I
• 13. Permanent Vacation
• 14. Radio Free Europe
• 15. Sitting Still
• 16. Dangerous Times
• 17. All The Right Friends
• 18. Shaking Through
• 19. Hey Little Girl
• 20. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 21. Windout
• 22. Gardening At Night
• 23. Scheherazade
• 24. Lisa Says
• 25. Mystery To Me
• 25. White Tornado

Ripe! The Georgia Peaches (Bootleg LP)
CYCLER-T-80
released: unknown
Label: IRS
Recorded: Live at Tyrone\s, April 10, 1981

• 1. Rave On
• 2. Burning Down
• 3. A Girl Like You
• 4. Get On their Way (What If We Give It Away?)
• 5. There She Goes Again
• 6. Pretty Persuasion
• 7. Body Count
• 8. A Different Girl
• 9. Action
• 10. Narrator
• 11. Hey! Hey! Nadine
• 12. Baby I
• 13. Permanent Vacation
• 14. Radio Free Europe
• 15. Sitting Still
• 16. Dangerous Times
• 17. All The Right Friends
• 18. Shaking Through
• 19. Hey Little Girl
• 20. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 21. Windout
• 22. Gardening At Night
• 23. Scheherazade
• 24. Lisa Says
• 25. Mystery To Me
• 25. White Tornado

Fables of REM (Bootleg 7”)
REM 01
released: unknown
Label: IRS
Recorded: 11/24/84 Nottingham, BBC Show

• 1. Pretty Persuasion
• 2. Radio Free Europe
• 3. West Of The Fields
• 4. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville

20th Century Boys – Vol.2 (Bootleg CD Album)

released: unknown
Label: IRS
Recorded: tracks 1-7 were recorded live at Stichcraft in Athens on 9/30/83. Tracks 8-26 were recorded live at Tyrone\s Club, Athens, GA, October 4, 1980.

• 1. Rave On
• 2. 20th Century Boy
• 3. Seven Chinese Bros.
• 4. Crazy
• 5. That Beat
• 6. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 7. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
• 8. Just A Touch
• 9. A Girl Like You
• 10. Dangerous Times
• 11. There She Goes Again
• 12. All The Right Friends
• 13. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 14. Body Count
• 15. Hippy Hippy Shake
• 16. Action
• 17. Narrator
• 18. Pretty Girl (Hey, Hey Nadine)
• 19. Gardening At Night
• 20. Scheherazade
• 21. Lisa Says
• 22. Mystery To Me
• 23. (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone
• 24. Permanent Vacation

Back To Rockville (Bootleg CD Album)
FLASHBACK 01-95-0247
released: unknown
Label: IRS
Recorded at Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL 7/784, Arsenio Hall – 10/17/89, MTV Awards 9/2/93

• 1. Femme Fatale
• 2. Radio Free Europe
• 3. Gardening At Night
• 4. 9-9
• 5. Windout
• 6. Letter Never Sent
• 7. Sitting Still
• 8. Driver 8
• 9. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 10. Seven Chinese Bros.
• 11. Voice of Harold
• 12. Harborcoat
• 13. Hyena
• 14. Pretty Persuasion
• 15. Second Guessing
• 16. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 17. Stand
  live recorded at: 1989-10-17 in Hollywood
• 18. Everybody Hurts
  MTV Awards
• 19. Drive
  MTV Awards

Ballroom Dancing (Bootleg CD Album)

released: unknown
Label: IRS
Recorded at Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL 7/7/84, SNL 1994.

• 1. Femme Fatale
• 2. Radio Free Europe
• 3. Gardening At Night
• 4. 9-9
• 5. Windout
• 6. Letter Never Sent
• 7. Sitting Still
• 8. Driver 8
• 9. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 10. Seven Chinese Bros.
• 11. Voice of Harold
• 12. Harborcoat
• 13. Hyena
• 14. Pretty Persuasion
• 15. Second Guessing
• 16. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 17. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
  live recorded at: 1994-11-12 in New York
• 18. Bang And Blame
  live recorded at: 1994-11-12 in New York
• 19. I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
  live recorded at: 1994-11-12 in New York
• 20. Hello In There

Bucketful of Worksongs (Bootleg CD Album)
92029/30
released: unknown
Label: IRS
Recorded: Tracks 1-22 Utrecht Holland 9/14/87, Tracks 23-28 Werchter, July 1985

• 1. Finest Worksong
• 2. These Days
• 3. Lightnin’ Hopkins
• 4. Welcome To The Occupation
• 5. Driver 8
• 6. Feeling Gravitys Pull
• 7. I Believe
• 8. The One I Love
• 9. Exhuming McCarthy
• 10. Wolves, Lower
• 11. Fall On Me
• 12. Superman
• 13. Just A Touch
• 14. Oddfellows Local 151
• 15. Strange
• 16. Disturbance At The Heron House
• 17. Funtime
• 18. Time After Time (Annelise)
• 19. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 20. Harpers
• 21. Moral Kiosk
• 22. Life And How To Live It
• 23. Feeling Gravitys Pull
• 24. Driver 8
• 25. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 26. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 27. Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
• 28. Can’t Get There From Here

Buy The Sky, Sell The Sky (Bootleg CD Album)
DIRTY 13 VOL. 7
released: unknown
Label: IRS

• 1. Gardening At Night
• 2. 9-9
• 3. Windout
• 4. Old Man Kensey
• 5. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
• 6. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 7. Talk About The Passion
• 8. Harborcoat
• 9. Hyena
• 10. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 11. Sitting Still
• 12. Driver 8
• 13. Catapult
• 14. Chicken Train
• 15. Pretty Persuasion
• 16. Little America
• 17. Ghost Riders In The Sky
• 18. Radio Free Europe
• 19. Femme Fatale

Collection 2000 (Bootleg CD Album)

released: unknown
Label: IRS

• 1. Losing My Religion
• 2. It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
• 3. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 4. Bang And Blame
• 5. 9-9
• 6. White Tornado
• 7. At My Most Beautiful
• 8. Can’t Get There From Here
• 9. Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars)
• 10. Gardening At Night
• 11. Everybody Hurts
• 12. Drive
• 13. Fall On Me
• 14. Perfect Circle
• 15. Pretty Persuasion
• 16. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 17. Strange Currencies
• 18. The Flowers Of Guatemala
• 19. Driver 8
• 20. Why Not Smile

DISTURBANCES (Bootleg CD Album)
CA 784A
released: unknown
Label: IRS
Recorded Live: Chicago 7/84.

• 1. Letter Never Sent
• 2. I Believe
• 3. Driver 8
• 4. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 5. Seven Chinese Bros.
• 6. Harborcoat
• 7. Hyena
• 8. Femme Fatale
• 9. Radio Free Europe
• 10. Gardening At Night
• 11. 9-9
• 12. Windout
• 13. Little America
• 14. Second Guessing
• 15. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville

Godzilla vs. REM’s Monster (Bootleg CD Album)
Germany – TR009
released: unknown
Label: IRS
Recorded: 1-16: Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL 7 July 1984., 17-19: Saturday Night Live, 12 Nov. 94. , 20: Scotland w/Billy Bragg, Natalie Merchant

• 1. Femme Fatale
• 2. Radio Free Europe
• 3. Gardening At Night
• 4. 9-9
• 5. Windout
• 6. Letter Never Sent
• 7. Sitting Still
• 8. Driver 8
• 9. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 10. Seven Chinese Bros.
• 11. Harborcoat
• 12. Hyena
• 13. Pretty Persuasion
• 14. Little America
• 15. Second Guessing
• 16. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 17. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
• 18. Bang And Blame
• 19. I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
• 20. Hello In There

In The Wood (Bootleg CD Album)
BGS004
released: unknown
Label: IRS
Recorded: 11/21/84 Rock City, Nottingham, UK

• 1. Hyena
• 2. Talk About The Passion
• 3. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 4. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
• 5. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 6. Sitting Still
• 7. Old Man Kensey
• 8. Gardening At Night
• 9. 9-9
• 10. Windout
• 11. Driver 8
• 12. Pretty Persuasion
• 13. Radio Free Europe

Live At Yokohama (Bootleg CD Album)
BZCD 009
released: unknown
Label: IRS
Recorded: 11/10/84 Yokohama University

• 1. Gardening At Night
• 2. 9-9
• 3. Old Man Kensey
• 4. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 5. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
• 6. Talk About The Passion
• 7. Harborcoat
• 8. Hyena
• 9. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 10. Sitting Still
• 11. Catapult
• 12. Chicken Train
• 13. Pretty Persuasion
• 14. Little America
• 15. Ghost Riders In The Sky
• 16. Second Guessing
• 17. Radio Free Europe
• 18. Femme Fatale

Monster Radio ’95 (Bootleg CD Album)
PD 075/076
released: unknown
Label: IRS
Recorded: 7/30/95, Milton Keynes: + 10 Early Tracks

• 1. What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
• 2. Crush With Eyeliner
• 3. Drive
• 4. Turn You Inside Out
• 5. Try Not To Breathe
• 6. I Took Your Name
• 7. Undertow
• 8. Bang And Blame
• 9. I Don’t Sleep, I Dream
• 10. Strange Currencies
• 11. Revolution
• 12. Tongue
• 13. Man On The Moon
• 14. Country Feedback
• 15. Half A World Away
• 16. Losing My Religion
• 17. Pop Song 89
• 18. Finest Worksong
• 19. Get Up
• 20. Star 69
• 21. Let Me In
• 22. Everybody Hurts
• 23. Fall On Me
• 24. Departure
• 25. It’s The End Of The World As We Know It
• 26. West Of The Fields
• 27. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville
• 28. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
• 29. So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)
• 30. Sitting Still
• 31. Driver 8
• 32. 9-9
• 33. Windout
• 34. Pretty Persuasion
• 35. Radio Free Europe

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