Bon Iver is a Grammy-nominated folk band founded in 2007 by American indie folk singer-songwriter Justin Vernon. It includes Michael Noyce, Sean Carey, and Matthew McCaughan. Vernon released Bon Iver’s debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago independently in July 2007. The majority of that album was recorded while Vernon spent three months in a remote cabin in northwestern Wisconsin. The name Bon Iver is derived from the French phrase bon hiver, meaning “good winter” or “have a good winter”.

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“I Can’t Make You Love Me” is a 1991 popular song, written by Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin and recorded by Bonnie Raitt on her Luck of the Draw album from that year. In August 2000, Mojo magazine voted “I Can’t Make You Love Me” #8 on its The 100 Greatest Songs Of All Time list.  The song is ranked #331 on the Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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Song Lyrics:

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

‘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 this final hour
I will lay down my heart
And feel the power if you want
No you won’t

I’ll close my eyes
Then I won’t see
The love you don’t feel
When you’re holding me
Mornin’ 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
Somethin it won’t
Here in the dark
In these final hours
I will lay down my heart
And feel the power if you want
No you won’t

‘Cause I can’t make you love me
No
If you don’t
Say you ain’t gotta love
You ain’t gotta love
You ain’t gotta love it
I can’t just make you love me
I can’t
I can’t
I can’t
I can’t

I tried my best
But you put my heart through the test
I can’t make you love me
I tried
I tried to get through to you girl
Can’t you see that I’m crying out to you girl
I can’t make you love me, OH
If you don’t

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