You Don't Have To Say You Love Me -- Dusty Springfield

When I said, I needed you,  You said you would always stay.
It wasn't me who changed, but you.  And now you've gone away.
Don't you see that now you've gone, And I'm left here on my own,
That I have to follow you,  And beg you to come home?

You don't have to say you love me.  Just be close at hand.
You don't have to stay forever,  I will understand.
Believe me, believe me,  I can't help but love you.
But believe me,  I'll never tie you down.

Left alone with just a memory,  Life seems dead and so unreal.
All that's left is loneliness.  There's nothing left to feel.
You don't have to say you love me.  Just be close at hand.   
You don't have to stay forever,  I will understand.  believe me    

You don't have to say you love me.  Just be close at hand.
You don't have to stay forever,  I will understand.
Believe me, believe me-ee, believe me.                            (sing365.com)

Originally, this was a Italian song composed by Pino Donnagio. Springfield heard Donnagio perform it at the San Remo festival and asked her friend Vicki Wickham, who produced the British TV show Ready Steady Go, to write some English lyrics for it.              (songfacts)






                                   

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