I Can't Make You Love Me
Composer(s): Michael Barry Reid; James Allen Shamblin
First release by: Bonnie Raitt - 1991
Covered by multiple other artists



Turn down the lights
turn down the bed 
Turn down these voices inside my head 
Lay down with me
tell me no lies 
Just hold me close, don't patronize
Don't patronize me 


'Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark, in these final hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't 
'Cause I can't make you love me
if you don't

I'll close my eyes
then I won't see
The love you don't feel when you're holding me
Morning will come and I'll do what's right
Just give me till then to give up this fight
And I will give up this fight

'Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark, in these final hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't 
'Cause I can't make you love me 
if you don't