《I can’t make you love me》

 

這是一首老歌，第一次聽到這首歌，或者第一次聽進這首歌，我一直能夠記得非常清晰；是在行進的車子裏。我正好一覺睡醒 ，車子剛剛開進密西西比州，睡前的沙漠變成了一片綠色，清晨的陽光灑在路邊的大樹上，我的心情，像水洗過那樣…

唱紅這首歌的，是Bonnie Raitt，那是1991年。現如今翻紅這首歌，是阿黛爾。Bonnie Raitt唱得中規中矩，阿黛爾唱得隨心所欲。我用了阿黛爾的卡拉OK伴奏，但是沒有辦法像阿黛爾那樣瀟灑，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