"Don't Go Back To Rockville" by 10000 Maniacs

[ original version by R.E.M. ] 

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