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(Don't Go Back To) Rockville (Single Edit) chords by R.E.M.

  • G

  • D

  • A

  • F#m

    2
  • Bm

    2
  • Am

  • F

  • Em

Intro 1
G
D
Verse 1
D
Looking at your watch a third time
G
Waiting in the station for the bus
D
Going to a place that's far
G
So far away and if that's not enough
A
G
Going where nobody
F#m
Bm
says hello
They don't talk to anybody
A
G
they don't know

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Verse 2
G
D
You'll wind up in some factory
That's full- time filth and
G
nowhere left to go
D
Walk home to an empty house
G
Sit around all by yourself
A
G
I know it might sound strange,
F#m
Bm
but I believe
You'll be coming back be
Am
F
fore too long
Interlude 1
G
Verse 3
D
Em
A
Don't go back to Rockville
D
Em
A
Don't go back to Rockville
D
Em
A
G
Don't go back to Rockville
Verse 4
And waste another year
G
D
At night, I drink myself to sleep
And pretend I don't care that
G
you're not here with me
D
'Cause it's so much easier to handle
G
All my problems if I'm too far out to sea
A
G
But something better hap
F#m
pen soon
Bm
Or it's gonna be too late
A
G
to bring you back
Interlude 2
Verse 5
D
Em
A
Don't go back to Rockville
D
Em
A
Don't go back to Rockville
D
Em
A
G
Don't go back to Rockville
Verse 6
And waste another year
D
G
A
G
A
D
It's not as though I really need you
G
A
If you were here, I'd only bleed you
G
A
Em
Bm
Em
But everybody else in town
Bm
G
only wants to bring you down
A
And that's not how it ought to be
G
I know it might sound strange,
F#m
Bm
but I believe
You'll be coming back
A
G
before too long
Interlude 3
Verse 7
D
Em
A
Don't go back to Rockville
D
Em
A
Don't go back to Rockville
D
Em
Don't go back to Rockville
A
G
And waste another year
D
Em
A
Don't go back to Rockville
D
Em
A
Don't go back to Rockville
D
Em
A
G
Don't go back to Rockville
Outro 1
And waste another year
G
A
D
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