Lirik lagu R.E.M - Don't Go Back to Rockville dan Terjemahan
"Don't Go Back to Rockville" adalah lagu yang ditulis oleh Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, dan Michael Stipe. Dirilis sebagai bagian dari album Life's Rich Pageant (1986), lagu ini menceritakan kisah seseorang yang merasa terjebak di kota kecil dan ingin melarikan diri ke dunia yang lebih besar.
Lirik Terjemahan
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
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 you back
Don't go back to Rockville, don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville and waste another year
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
Don't go back to Rockville, don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville and waste another year
Don't go back to Rockville, don't go back to Rockville
Don't go back to Rockville and waste another year