Morningbell - You Needn’t Have Bothered Lyrics
Say you love me maybe, well you needn’t have bothered, baby.You love me maybe, but you needn’t have bothered, baby.Say you love me maybe, well you needn’t have bothered, baby.You love me maybe, well, maybe . . .As a child, I was my fatherWhen did I turn into me?Like water mixing into waterOr when I breathe into a breezeIdeas like these will occasionally casually occur to me:I hear sunshineI have abandoned sleepOn death and life: I don’t want to come back, but I don’t want to leaveBecause I’ve been places where your friends have no facesFound the ground of the abyssThe question is: To live forever or never exist?I will remember little of this, except for when you said to meYou love me maybe, well you needn’t have bothered, babySay you love me maybe, but you needn’t have bothered babyYou love me maybe, well you needn’t have bothered, babySay you love me maybe, but you needn’t have bothered, baby.The worldly hope men set their hearts uponTurns ashes, or it prospers, and anonLike snow upon the desert’s dusty faceAlighting an hour or two is goneAnd those who husbanded the golden grainAnd those who flung it to the winds like rainAlike to no such aureate earth are turnedAs buried once, men want dug up againI sometimes think that never blows so redThe rose as where some buried Caesar bledThat every hyacinth the garden wearsDropped in its lap from some once holy head.Good things must end baby, but bad things do tooSo never mind the treachery of timeTonight the heaventree of stars hangs with humid nightblue fruitSo be moved as I move in youAs I was moved by, “Aunts as unclish ams make oom.”Strange that death leaves us silent as a closed book.As far as Joyce knows, it’s still World War II.
