VIKKI CARR - YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME

YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME

VIKKI CARR

SONGWRITERS: Pino Donaggio & VITO PALAVICINI;

VERSION: Thom Bell; Simon A. Napier & Vicki Wickham

ORIGINAL: IO CHE NON VIVO SENZA TE

ALBUM: WITH PEN IN HAND

LABEL: SUNSET RECORDS

GENRE: MUSICA LEGGERA

YEAR: 1969

"You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" (originally a 1965 Italian song by Pino Donaggio and lyricist Vito Pallavicini: '"Io che non vivo (senza te)") is a 1966 hit recorded by English singer Dusty Springfield that proved to be her most successful hit single, reaching No.1 UK and No.4 US: the song subsequently charted in the UK via remakes by Elvis Presley (No.9/1971), Guys 'n' Dolls (No.5/1976) and Denise Welch (No.23/1995), with Presley's version also reaching No.11 US in 1970. "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" was also a Top Ten hit in Ireland for Red Hurley (No.5/1978), in Italy for Wall Street Crash (No.6/1983), and - as "En koskaan" - in Finland for Kristina Hautala (No.6/1966).

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

CHORUS:

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

CHORUS:

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....

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, believe me