I Cant Make You Love Me — текст песни (Chantal Kreviazuk)

Words & music: m. reid & a. shamblin



** chantal has said this is one of her favorite songs to sing (along with carole kings "(you make me feel like a) natural woman"), and she has called bonnie raitt, for whom this song was a hit in the early 90s, "the godmother of singing-it-like-you-mean-it soul." the two women met during their overlapping stints with lilith fair 1998. these are the official lyrics and not accurate to the way chantal performs the song. **



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, dont patronize (dont patronize me)



Cause I cant make you love me if you dont

You cant make your heart feel something it wont

Here in the dark, in these lonely hours

I will lay down my heart and Ill feel the power

But you wont, no, you wont

Cause I cant make you love me if you dont



Ill close my eyes, then I wont see

The love you dont feel when youre holding me

Morning will come and Ill do whats right

Just give me till then to give up this fight (and I will give up this fight)



Cause I cant make you love me if you dont

You cant make your heart feel something it wont

Here in the dark, in these lonely hours

I will lay down my heart and Ill feel the power

But you wont, no, you wont

Cause I cant make you love me if you dont