Here are the lyrics to “I can’t make you love me” by Bonnie Raitt. The actual words can be copied and downloaded below the video.
Recently this song was sung with great emotion on X Factor UK by James Arthur as he sings for his life.
“I can’t make you love me” lyrics – Bonnie Raitt
Songwriters: REID, MICHAEL / SHAMBLIN, ALLENTurn 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 meCause 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’tI’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 fightCause 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