I Can't Make You Love Me (February 4)

I Can't Make You Love Me (Bonnie Raitt)

*I've posted this song before but I just love it. I came across this one during the mid-'90's; during George Michael's MTV Live special being rerun on TV to be specific. It wasn't really love at first sight but there was a time that the song highly resonated how I was feeling. Funny how powerful songs could be, I introduced this song to my current batch of co-workers and Sol became as attached to the song as I was. This song is currently on the Top 5 list of songs that made our speakers in the office bled*

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 holdin me
Mornin 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