Brenda Lee - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me video free download

Performance from 1987 or 1988. This song was a mega hit for Dusty Springfield in 1966 ( #1 in the UK,and #4 in the US). Brenda Lee covered it the same year on her "Coming On Strong" album. It is an Italian song "Io che non vivo (senza te)". In English, "I, who can't live (without you)". Springfield saw it performed at San Remo by Pino Donaggio and Jody Miller. She had English lyrics written for her recording. In 1970, Elvis Presley's version reached #11 on the Hot 100 and #1 on the AC chart.

Music by Pino Donaggio and Vito Pallavicini

English lyrics by Vicki Wickham and Simon Napier-Bell.

Lyrics as sung by Brenda Lee:

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 know that now you've gone, I'm left here on my own

and 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

Live alone with just a memory, my life is dead and so unreal

There's nothing left for me, there's nothing left for me ¹

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,

Ooooh,

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

¹The original line here is

"All that-s left is loneliness, there-s nothing left to feel"

Please excuse the blurry video, but I thought the vocal performance was worth posting. Video is from 1987 or 1988.