In 2014 I wrote a song a week and posted them on Youtube in demo form, called 52 Fridays. In 2015 I wrote two books. I missed writing the songs. I’m not crazy enough to contemplate another year of a song a week, but I figured that I might manage one a month, with perhaps the odd extra here and there. So this is the first…. I decided they are all going to be, in the widest possible sense, love songs. This is a love song, although it sounds like it’s the end of love – by the end maybe it’s not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1gIt6KYpS0
You Don’t Love Me
You don’t love me, not like I need
So I must leave, simple really
But I don’t go, always loath
To break what is almost not broke
But I know you can’t, you don’t
Love me, not like I need
You can be too pretty
You can be too slow
I could full a book
With the things I don’t know
I used to take my life to the street
Now these four walls are the friends we meet
You don’t love me, not like I need
So I must leave, simple really
But I don’t go, always loath
To break what is almost not broke
But I know you can’t, you don’t
Love me, not like I need
You can be too cautious
You can fail to grow
You like to sing a love song
But you always sing solo
I still believe in a happy ending
But I started to doubt everything about the beginning
Do I have the strength for more?
More of the same
But do I have the strength to end
This subtle gentle pain?
You don’t love me, not like I need
Reason not the need and believe
If I don’t go it’s cos I know
Almost is almost
But I know you can’t, you don’t
Love me, not like I need