"I Can't Make You Love Me"

I just had a musical epiphany...I just rediscovered this song.  Everyone and their brother has done a cover of this song...can you imagine the royalties on this hit??  At least for me, this is a song I always knew but never understood.  Well, I understand it now & it is on my all-time favorite songs list!  This song is so timeless that it even has a Wikipedia page! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can't_Make_You_Love_Me   Check it out!  In doing my research for this post, I found out that one of the unbelievable writers behind Miranda Lambert's "The House That Built Me" ALSO wrote "I Can't Make You Love Me."  I guess if you have it, you have it...and Allen Shamblin undoubtedly has it!  This song was inspired by an article about some poor broken hearted man who shot at his girlfriend's car.  Inspiration comes anywhere, anytime.  


Here's to broken hearts, lonely ballads and good music.


FM Radio:

Singers: Bonnie Raitt, George Michael, Lady Antebellum...Everyone!

Songwriters: Mike Reid, Allen Shamblin

Song: "I Can't Make You Love Me"

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.

Bonnie Raitt:


Lady A's Version: