I Can't Make You Love Me -- Bonnie Rait

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 somethin' it wont here in the dark,in these final hours
i will lay down my heart and I feel the power but you wont
no you wont cuz i can't make you love me  if you don't

i'll close my eyes then i wont see the love you dont feel
when your holdin' me morning will come and i'll do whats right
just give me till then to give up this fight
and i will give up this fight                      (sing365)

This was written by songwriting team of Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin. Reid got the idea from a newspaper article about a guy who got drunk and shot up his girlfriend's car. When the judge sentenced him and asked him what he had learned, he said, "You can't make a woman love you if she don't."      (songfacts)