I Can't Make You Love Me

Kelly Clarkson · The Smoakstack Sessions [2011]

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 'til 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

'Cause I can't make you love me if you don't