Don't Go Back To Rockville

"(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" was the second and final single released by R.E.M. from their second studio album Reckoning. The song failed to chart on either the Billboard Hot 100 or the UK Singles Charts. The song was written by Mike Mills as a plea to his then girlfriend, Ingrid Schorr, not to return to her hometown of Rockville, Maryland. Peter Buck has stated that the song was originally performed in a punk/thrash style, and that it was recorded for this single in its now more-familiar country-inspired arrangement as a joke aimed at R.E.M. manager Bertis Downs. Over time, Mike Mills has taken lead vocals instead of Michael Stipe. On R.E.M.'s appearance on VH1 Storytellers in 1998, Mills performed the song solo on piano. A live version of the song was released as the B-side to "Leaving New York" in 2004 and on R.E.M. Live in 2007.

Some bands I like to name check And one of them is R.E.M., Classic songs with a long history Southern boys just like you and me R - E - M Flashback to 1983 *Chronic Town* was their first EP Later on came *Reckoning* Finster's art, and titles to match "So. Central Rain", "(Don't Go Back to) Rockville" "Harborcoat", "Pretty Persuasion" You were born to be a camera "Time After Time" was my least favorite song "Time After Time" was my least favorite song The singer, he had long hair And the drummer he knew restraint And the bass man he had all the right moves And the guitar player was no saint So lets go way back to the ancient times When there were no 50 states And on a hill there stands Sherman Sherman and his mates And they're marching through Georgia We're marching through Georgia We're marching through Georgia G-G-G-G-Georgia They're marching through Georgia We're marching through Georgia Marching through Georgia G-G-G-G-Georgia And there stands R.E.M (Aye Sir, Aye Sir, Aye Sir they're coming, Aye Sir, move those wagons, Aye Sir, Artillery's in place Sir, Aye Sir, Aye Sir, hide it, hide it, Aye Sir, run, run.)