Released: January 20, 1997
Songwriter: Allen Shamblin Mike Reid
Producer: George Michael
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
'Cause I can't make you love me
If you don't
You can't make your heart feel
Something that 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
'And I can't make you love me
If you don't
[Verse 2]
I'll close my eyes
Then I won't see
The love you do not 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
[Chorus]
'And I can't make you love me
If you don't
You can't make your heart feel
Something that it won't
And 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
'And I can't make you love me
If you don't
[Ad lib]
Ain't no use in you trying
It's no good for me, baby
Without love
All my tears, all these years
Everything
I believed in
Baby
Oh yeah
Someone's gonna love me
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
[Chorus]
'Cause I can't make you love me
If you don't
You can't make your heart feel
Something that 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
'And I can't make you love me
If you don't
[Verse 2]
I'll close my eyes
Then I won't see
The love you do not 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
[Chorus]
'And I can't make you love me
If you don't
You can't make your heart feel
Something that it won't
And 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
'And I can't make you love me
If you don't
[Ad lib]
Ain't no use in you trying
It's no good for me, baby
Without love
All my tears, all these years
Everything
I believed in
Baby
Oh yeah
Someone's gonna love me
more tracks from the album
Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael
- Freedom! ’90
- Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- I Can’t Make You Love Me
- You Have Been Loved
- A Moment With You
- Jesus to a Child
- As
- Spinning the Wheel
- Somebody to Love
- Star People 97
- Desafinado (Off Key)
- Cowboys and Angels
- Heal the Pain
- Waiting For That Day/You Can’t Always Get What You Want
- Fastlove
- A Different Corner
- Praying For Time
- Faith
- Careless Whisper
- Father Figure
- I Want Your Sex (Pts. I & II)
- Outside
- One More Try
- I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)
- Kissing a Fool
- Fantasy
- The Strangest Thing
- Too Funky
- Killer/Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone
From the albums
- The Older EP (1997)
- Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael (1998)
George Michael popular songs
- Freedom! ’90
- Faith
- Father Figure
- One More Try
- As
- Fastlove
- I Want Your Sex (Pts. I & II)
- Jesus to a Child
- Kissing a Fool
- Praying For Time
- Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me
- Cowboys and Angels
- They Won’t Go When I Go
- You Have Been Loved
- Amazing
- Last Christmas
- This Kind Of Love
- A Different Corner
- Heal the Pain
- Spinning the Wheel
- Too Funky
- Outside
- Monkey
- Older