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
Cuz I can’t make U love me if U don’t
I can’t make your heart feel something it won’t
Here in the dark, in these final hours
I will lay down my heart (my heart) and I’ll feel the power
But U won’t, no, U won’t
Cuz I can’t make U love me if U don’t
Do U?
Do U love me?
Look at me
I’ll close my eyes, then I won’t see
The love U don’t feel, when U’re holding me (Hold me)
Morning will come and I’ll do what’s right (Do it right {x2})
Just give me ’til then 2 give up this fight
And I will, I will give up this fight
Oh, yes I will
Cuz I can’t make U love me if U don’t
I can’t make your heart feel something it won’t
Ah, don’t U know here in the dark, in the dark baby, these final hours (Here in
the dark)
I will lay down my heart (my heart) and I’ll feel the power, oh yes I will
But U won’t
Tell me why, tell me why U don’t?
(I can’t make U love me if U don’t)
Come here, baby
(I can’t make your heart feel something it won’t)
Talk 2 me, tell me where U wanna be kissed
Talk 2 me, tell me how U want me 2 do this
In this bedroom/church, U can guess the offering
I offer U (My heart)
I offer U sexual relations (But U won’t)
But U won’t (U won’t)
Tell me what’s up baby?
Am I moving 2 fast?
Not only do I wanna be the first, I wanna be the last, the last
Is that so bad?
I.. I want 2.. U know
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna make U love me
(Do U love me?)
Come on baby, U can take it (My heart) (Come on and take it)
It’s real love – I wanna make it (I wanna)
But U won’t love me, love me (But U won’t)
U won’t love me, baby
What’s a man 2 do?
What is this man gonna do?
I can’t make U love me if U don’t
I want U 2 (love me) love me
I need U 2 (kiss me, yeah)
Oh darlin’ (Love me)
Love me {x5}
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 between your thighs
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Info:
“I Can’t Make You Love Me” is a 1991 popular song, written by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin and recorded by Bonnie Raitt on her Luck of the Draw album from that year. In August 2000, Mojo magazine voted “I Can’t Make You Love Me” #8 on its The 100 Greatest Songs Of All Time list.[1] The song is ranked #331 on the Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Content
The idea for the song came to Reid while reading an article about a man arrested for getting drunk and shooting at his girlfriend’s car. The judge asked him if he had learned anything, to which he replied, “I learned, Your Honor, that you can’t make a woman love you if she don’t.”[2] Reid and Shamblin were both country music songwriters, who according to some accounts originally wrote the song as a fast, bluegrass number. Upon slowing down the tempo considerably, they realized the song gained considerable power. It then made its way to Raitt.
A pensive ballad, “I Can’t Make You Love Me” was recorded against a quiet electric piano-based arrangement, with prominent piano fills and interpolations supplied by Bruce Hornsby. The singer depicts a now one-sided romantic relationship about to end in soft but brutally honest terms:
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.
Raitt recorded the vocal in just one take in the studio, later saying that it was so sad a song that she could not recapture the emotion: “We’d try to do it again and I just said, ‘You know, this ain’t going to happen.’”[3]
The song was a big hit for Raitt, reaching #18 on the U.S. pop singles chart and #6 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and helped solidify her remarkable late-in-career commercial success that had begun two years before. In the time since, “I Can’t Make You Love Me” has gone on to become a pop standard and a mainstay of adult contemporary radio formats.
For Raitt, the song was notoriously difficult to sing, due to its required vocal range, difficult phrasing and breathing, and the emotional content involved. At the televised Grammy Awards of 1992 Raitt performed it in an even more austere setting than on record, with just her and Hornsby highlighted. As she negotiated the final vocal line, she let out a big audible and visible sigh of relief that she had successfully gotten through it. Both Raitt and Hornsby has continued to sing the song in all her concert tours.
“ I mean, ‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’ is no picnic. I love that song, so does the audience. So it’s almost a sacred moment when you share that, that depth of pain with your audience. Because they get really quiet, and I have to summon … some other place in order to honor that space. ”
— Raitt, 2002 NPR interview
Nina version
“I Can’t Make You Love Me” is the final commercial single from Filipino singer Nina’s self-titled fourth album.[6] It was released in March 2007 by Warner Music Philippines. The single was a success, peaking at number one on Philippine radio stations and singles charts. It is her second straight number one single from the album, the other being “Someday”.
It was released on digital download through iTunes and Amazon.com.[7][8]
[edit] Critical reception
“I Can’t Make You Love Me” was critically acclaimed. Among songs from Nina (the album), it received overwhelming positive reviews. Rito Asilo of Inquirer Entertainment praised the song in a review, saying “Bonnie Raitt’s anthemic song for the lovelorn is hard to top, but Nina gives a beautifully dressed-down version. It features simple, straightforward singing with guitar strumming in the background, and a last stanza that’s transposed twice to show off the singer’s stratospheric vocal range”.[9] Resty Odon of Titik Pilipino liked the simplicity on Nina’s rendition of the song, stating “I like her version of ‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’; she adds a delicate sheen to Bonnie Raitt’s original lament to love that’s not there and never will be”.
Other versions
It has also been recorded by a number of other artists, including Bon Iver, Will Downing, Prince, Kevin Mahogany, Bonnie Tyler, Mary Coughlan, Kenny Rogers, Nancy Wilson, Kimberley Locke, Patti Labelle, Sophie Milman, Boyz II Men, Tank, Nelson Rangell, Jimmy Sommers, Candy Dulfer, Arnee Hidalgo, Sarah Bettens, Piotr Żaczek featuring Kuba Badach, Jill Johnson,[12] Heather Peace, Adele,and Gina G to name a few. Mike Reid himself recorded the song on his 1992 album Twilight Town. Indie folk artist Bon Iver covered the song on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and released his version on the single of ‘Calgary’ in 2011. A version by the band Venice was featured over the end credits of the controversial film Boxing Helena. Actress Maria Bello sings a rendition of the song in the 2000 film Duets as a character with a past reminiscent of the song’s story. Paul Carrack recorded a version of the song with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra for his album A Different Hat, released in 2010. It has become a popular selection for contestants in televised singing competitions such as American Idol, Canadian Idol, Nashville Star, and Rock Star: INXS. This song was performed by Idol contestants: Kimberley Locke in Season 2, Constantine Maroulis in Season 4, and Amy Krebs in Season 6, Allison Iraheta in Season 8, as well as Nashville Season 5 winner Angela Hacker and Canadian Idol season 3 contestant Amber Fleury, who also recorded it for the Canadian Idol: High Notes cd. Moreover, Season 4 Idol winner Carrie Underwood and Season 6 finalist Haley Scarnato sang this song during their initial auditions. Contestant Stacey Solomon sang the song during Season 6 of The X Factor.[13] British singer Adele covered the song at the ITunes Festival London 2011 during her Adele Live tour.
Quelle: Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can%27t_Make_You_Love_Me
