Bonnie Raitt – I Can't Make You Love Me lyrics

Bonnie Raitt – I Can't Make You Love Me lyrics

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 lonely 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

Lyrics taken from /lyrics/b/bonnie_raitt/i_cant_make_you_love_me.html

Songwriters: James Allen Shamblin, Michael Barry Reid

I Can't Make You Love Me lyrics © AMPLIFIED ADMINISTRATION, O/B/O DistroKid, Universal Music Publishing Group

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bobzilla 2008-04-25 15:28:48

One of the most heartbreaking love songs ever. She is saying goodbye "here in the dark in these final hours" to someone she loves; someone who didn't return her love. She is honestly accepting a heartbreak and a goodbye, honestly accepting the pain, trading everything--even her dignity--for one last night.
If you understand this song, you probably won't be able to hear it without crying.
Bonnie Raitt performed this song in a concert to say goodbye to Don Kirschner when he died. She's got courage.

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juliannem319 2015-03-21 19:30:44

This is obviously a song about unrequited love. Whether the couple in here were in a relationship, were former lovers or never really were together is unknown and doesn't really matter to the emotions expressed and feelings felt.

Through simple lyrics and through painting the image of a woman lying in the arms of a man who doesn't love her, the lyrics provide a good feel of what unrequited love can be. A one-sided affair, even though two people are involved. They both know what is and what isn't there, but the one in love finds it very hard to let go of her love.

Find more about my interpretation of exactly what these lyrics mean at readingthroughlyrics.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/i-cant-make-you-love-me-by-bonnie-raitt/

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