《I can’t make you love me》

 

这是一首老歌，第一次听到这首歌，或者第一次听进这首歌，我一直能够记得非常清晰；是在行进的车子里。我正好一觉睡醒 ，车子刚刚开进密西西比州，睡前的沙漠变成了一片绿色，清晨的阳光洒在路边的大树上，我的心情，像水洗过那样…

唱红这首歌的，是Bonnie Raitt，那是1991年。现如今翻红这首歌，是阿黛尔。Bonnie Raitt唱得中规中矩，阿黛尔唱得随心所欲。我用了阿黛尔的卡拉OK伴奏，但是没有办法像阿黛尔那样潇洒，所以，也有很多Bonnie Raitt的影子。

 

"I Can't Make You Love Me" is a song written by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin and recorded by American singer Bonnie Raitt for her eleventh studio album, Luck of the Draw (1991).

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 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 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