I've felt the pain this song explains ... if ever there was a song where the music, the melody, and the lyrics fit so perfectly, this would be it... I close my eyes to this and it conjures up the memories ... sometimes it's good to remember that kind of hurt.
For you young. I once loved a girl. I let her go. I married another. 21 years later the marriage ended. I looked for the 'true' love again. Only to find she'd just died of cancer.
@1966kdickson If you don't feel this in your heart you're not human....I really like the Jesus comment above. This is probably how God feels about us.......the problem is God is the only thing that really fills that emptiness we all try to fill in all sorts of ways and it has to pain Him watching our efforts in futility.
Truly beautiful song sung by a beautiful woman, rejection so hard to bare at times, but makes one stronger in the long run. Love Bruce on the keyboards. Great Post.
I keep coming back to this beautiful song each time I log on. Outstanding performance. Even the high note was reached without the slightest strain. Few artists can match their original studio version. Ms Raitt effortlessly surpasses her original recording.
Don't even have to have gone through the emotions to realise what a beautiful song this is. Seen her a few times and its great how she sings this with so much feeling.
My god, Bonnie Raitt, she is such a good singer. How she stands there quietly and offers her whole life, love and pain in this song. Thank you so much
This has got to be, arguably, one of the most hauntingly beautiful, ageless songs ever written -- a song that transcends all generations, tastes, preferences, etc. This is the type of song almost anyone can relate to in some way.
I personally don't know of anyone who doesn't love this song.
How can you touch this? Really? I mean... I am a feeler.. an emotive conseuqeunce to myself... a retributive concept ion love's honor... Thank you a thousand times over for this song... To J-bird...... From L-Pop... FOREVER>.....
How can you touch this? Really? I mean... I am a feeler.. an emotive conseuqeunce to myself... a retributive concept ion love's honor... Thank you a thousand times over for this song... To J-bird...... From L-Pop... FOREVER>.....
Every time I hear this song I get misty eyed! Can't help it....Mz. Raitt expresses such a warmth and devotion to the power of love........For me it is her signature song!......It doesn't matter whether you're in love or out of love...if you have ever experienced the disappointment that love can sometimes bring then you can relate! ....
@fredfredvid Thank you for this awesome upload..it is truly a gem!!!
What do you guys think about Tanks version of this. I think he did ok but I'm not a true bonnie follower. I just remember hearing this all the time on the """smooth jazz""" stations as a kid.
Well said, Crest7878 ...... no one could own a song, heart and soul, like Bonnie ..... I have heard this version probably 500 times, and it STILL gives me gooseflesh, shivers, and the ultimate " musicgasm" ~
words can't even express how great this song is. a true classic. and no one, absoutely no one sings it better. And who better than Bruce Hornsby to accompany on keys...WOW
So many people have done so many shitty covers of this epic song. None can come close to the emotion in Bonnie's voice and the skill of Bruce on the piano.
2 people are def. that's the only reason not to like this. She is so amazing. I love my dead great grandpa's cousin. She has such a beautiful voice. I hope to be as good as her someday. =)
this was the songs I listened to when I broke up with my man of 6 years. I just cried more than ever but at the end of the day, it made me so much stronger. The part when she says "I close my eyes and I wont see, the love you dont feel when your holding me" made me break down everytime I heard it but the end when she said "No use of me trying" made me wipe my tears. you can only give all of you. If its not accepted, then least you kno u gave ur all.
@salaxxx21 You are so right,same here I can honestly say I gave it al I could, but It just wasnt enough,after all these years , how could anyone want more than i gave ? Well Ill be just fine, Ill close my eyes and I wont see either, but thats that .I really loved her with all my heart and soul, but it wasnt enough. happy trails .
@soggybuilders Ill tell you. Ive been thru so much that now when i listen to this song, I can smile. Actually, alot of songs, I can smile & just enjoy the music. I used to listen to music & it would break me into tears. I hope you get thru your pain because i know its not easy to get thru. :-)
@salaxxx21 You are so right,same here I can honestly say I gave it al I could, but It just wasnt enough,after all these years , how could anyone want more than i gave ? Well Ill be just fine, Ill close my eyes and I wont see either, but thats that .I really loved her with all my heart and soul, but it wasnt enough. happy trails .
The sad thing is....if you play this song for anyone you love and are about to lose...you will feel the power...but they won't....no they won't........
OMG, while Bonnie Raitt's original version is a wonderful song and wonderfully done....George Michael's version just blows everyone else's out of the water....including Ms. Raitt's. You will appreciate Geoge's version even if you were never a fan of his or Wham UK! (LOL)
Man, when this song came out, i bought the cassette and played it in my car so much that my toddler son started singing it because he had heard it so many times!
@UltraReviewer2 i remember talking to a girl at a bar who was crying to this song cause the guy she was with for 7 years was calling it quits.i could tell it hit her the way it was suppose to her just like this song
@madmanmillett Never do anything to a girl like that except listen. That is what she needs. If you do that...you may miss on a 'score' but you will gain a friend. We all need more friends. I have none, no family, no friends...so,..yeah. Cherish and hold what you can.
Actually, the title and subject of the song were taken from a feature story in the Nashville Tennessean newspaper--an interview with a man who had lost his home, lost his automobile and just lost his wife thru divorce. The reporter asked him if he felt like he'd been dumped on and he responded, "I can't make her love me if she don't." The story was spotted by songwriters Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin--and the rest is wonderful music history. Many thanks Mike, Allen an Bonnie!
George's cover of this song is one of my all time faves. But I am afraid it doesn't shine compared to Bonnie's original. Must be one of the most beautiful and saddest song ever written.
I have tried many times to ad this song to my repertoire, but have never been able to get all the way through it without this huge lump forming in my throat. How Bonnie can sing it so beautifully and clear as a bell,I will never know. She and this song, meant for one another. You're both beautiful.
Great music, Great Song! Awesome! Strong words to consider in that very tough time when deciding to let go.Thank you so much for this song it has helped me in so many ways. Always brings tears!!!! Somebody got it right. Incredible.
I never tire of this song. One of the most beautiful songs ever written and the way she performs it is so heart wrenching. An intimate expression and look at one's heart and it's desire.
I never tire of this song. One of the most beautiful songs ever written and the way she performs it is so heart wrenching. An intimate expression and look at one's heart and it's desire.
the perfect song the perfect singer.......as there ever been a more beautiful song.......i can`t make you love me...we`ve all been there boys....this song is so good it hurts
Have been hearing and knowing this sentiment for many years. Thank you for giving me a place to go to remember the simple truth. What a beautiful song, and hearing Bruces' amazing accompanyment just caps the evening off.
Good music, is GOOD MUSIC and this song by MS Bonnie Raitt, is DA BOMB. No matter what race, religion or personnel belief. If you understand GOOD MUSIC or performance, YOU get this video and song. And I BETCHA................
Absolutely incredible, beyond what words can describe. What this song does to me and for me; Bruce Hornsby performs beautifully alongside the blues songstress herself; awsome. This performance, awsome! Can't wait to sing with both of them. Signed, The Crosseyed Cat!
No one can make some one feel something that is not there in their heart. Even if an unplanned child is involved. Women tend to think getting pregnant will tie the man to her and her child... He will walk away from her and the child at his first chance out.
You know, I write songs and when you write songs its easy to feel like success comes down to a cosmic lottery of having the sound that people want to hear at the time. But this song disproves that. This song couldn't have been anything but one of the great songs of modern music. It's message is so simple and so universal, and yet it's original. Who else has expressed this idea so eloquently? I can't make you love me if you don't. What else needs to be said?
@Crest7878 really well said. and i think thats the root of all good music, like music that is actually good, that is pure and honest and is made out of necessity instead of just desire. the blues made an example of that--those cats didnt make music to get famous, they did it because it helped them get along thru life, it helped them heal. thats what musics about.
@Crest7878 - Oh God do I agree with your assesement of this song. Kills me everytime I hear it and I can start to actually cry and I am no sensitive guy - it also gives me the chills...
@Crest7878 Indeed. What else needs to be said ? This is the saddest song I have ever heard. But sometimes it is the absolute painful truth that must be accepted. And move on. I wish I had never needed to say or feel the words to this song, but I did once. This is still a beautiful tune that so many of us can relate to at some point in our lives. This is what makes it so great, I think.
@62view Oh yes, powerful indeed...The quintessential song for being in complete love, but realizing too late it's not mutual. Then, just wanting that last night together, no words, no explanations... no bullshit excuses to cheapen it...Feeling you must have that final night, in the darkness, with the one you know you'll never stop loving..
@midatlanticcycle We probably have.. It's one of the worst feelings when that person acts as if they love you in return..and they do...to a point...for a while.. Then, for some reason, it fades.. You feel like you'd try to get them to feel it again, or try doing things to rekindle it all.. You then realize they just don't feel the same and you have that final night, sharing what you do have, and it's still like it was. It seems like a misunderstanding, but it isn't..that simple.
@TheAlysheba well said. it is one of the worst emotions known to mankind. has nothing to do with death and destruction...more along the lines of a total loss. fortunately the human mind is resilient and recovers fairly quickly from something like that.
@Crest7878 Absolutely true and well said.. So simple, but no one had thoughts of this until Bonnie.. You feel like saying "yeah, that's exactly how I feel, why didn't I think of this?" You can't make the heart feel what it won't...don't patronize..perfection! So very true for many people and the pain of rejection is so difficult to understand, sometimes..The rest of the lyrics are the frosting on the cake.. Beautiful...
Yep, that is the great Bruce Hornsby :) He is a fantastic musician in his own right. He has many hits. my fav is probably Mandolin Rain. and The way it is. You can listen to much of his work here on youtube.
She's so graceful.
Love this song so much yet aching in my heart.
kenzoic 10 months ago
Pacing on this song is magnificent. Not hurried, but not late...
haximoto 10 months ago
One of my fav Bonnie Raitt song....seems to take us back to a certain
time and place....You all should hear Nikolas Metaxas version of this
song.....very powerful
garrettdobbs 10 months ago
This is one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
stormykat77 10 months ago
Tearjerker...every time.
5burowz 10 months ago
Some of Regina Spektor's songs dig this deep. So do "Dido's" If you don't know those artists...check them out. They are profound.
Prometheus1st 10 months ago
just too beautiful....!!!
LuluS61 10 months ago
Beautiful breathtaking song..
irishbelle65 10 months ago
I've felt the pain this song explains ... if ever there was a song where the music, the melody, and the lyrics fit so perfectly, this would be it... I close my eyes to this and it conjures up the memories ... sometimes it's good to remember that kind of hurt.
EDNAPA76 10 months ago
Who are the 2 goofballs who don't like this song!
pgalan9239 10 months ago
WHAT A SONG!!! And Bruce Hornsby, one of the most underated piano players of all time..
monex5 10 months ago
She isn't losing the person she loves, she is letting him go.
voodootex2u 10 months ago
awesome song, agree with the below.
044717 10 months ago
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Thanks. Just heed the words. Don't waste your life. Go get it. Don't wait for it to come to you.
It's really true that wisdom comes with age.
I'm 52 and if I knew then what I know now. I'd be happy. If you're unsure of things. Ask someone older for advice.
niptodstan 10 months ago
For you young. I once loved a girl. I let her go. I married another. 21 years later the marriage ended. I looked for the 'true' love again. Only to find she'd just died of cancer.
Don't let the special one get away. X
niptodstan 10 months ago
@niptodstan that comment made me cry really bad, i feel for you man.
mackaus1 10 months ago
@niptodstan There is nothing worse then losing the one you love forever.
pansyinthegarden 10 months ago
@pansyinthegarden She isn't losing him, she is letting him go.
voodootex2u 10 months ago
Breath taking!
rocknroller1986 10 months ago
Love is immortality
ogrepore 10 months ago
Man! If there was a contest for what beautiful things we can make out of our pain - this song would win! Song is great, she's great - perfect match.
JasonLeonPike 10 months ago
The first time hears I was speechless. Every thing from the piano to the backgroud singers were perfect.
1966kdickson 10 months ago
@1966kdickson
jukejointmikey 10 months ago
@1966kdickson If you don't feel this in your heart you're not human....I really like the Jesus comment above. This is probably how God feels about us.......the problem is God is the only thing that really fills that emptiness we all try to fill in all sorts of ways and it has to pain Him watching our efforts in futility.
jukejointmikey 10 months ago
Beautiful!
JimMLINY 11 months ago
Truly beautiful song sung by a beautiful woman, rejection so hard to bare at times, but makes one stronger in the long run. Love Bruce on the keyboards. Great Post.
Thereisonlythemoment 11 months ago
I keep coming back to this beautiful song each time I log on. Outstanding performance. Even the high note was reached without the slightest strain. Few artists can match their original studio version. Ms Raitt effortlessly surpasses her original recording.
GibsonDove75 11 months ago
Don't even have to have gone through the emotions to realise what a beautiful song this is. Seen her a few times and its great how she sings this with so much feeling.
MsStumble 11 months ago
Been there.
livelifealwaystoo 11 months ago
I do not think you could say this any better,the pain will always be there.
oldersoul1 11 months ago
Incredible Performance and band!
Groovingfool 11 months ago
Is this Bruce Hornsbury playing piano? I think it is :) Double brilliance :) x
Ellie9691 11 months ago
@Ellie9691 Indeed it is. I can't imagine this song without Hornsby.
monex5 11 months ago
Absolutely phenomenal!!
senecacarol 11 months ago
this song was in my head all day. it made me think of the one i love and lost nirdla1125.
MsTheresa1976 11 months ago
still makes me tingle all over...wil never ever get tired of listening to this..lovely truely lovely
horlicks54 11 months ago
still makes me tingle all over...wil never ever get tired of listening to tis
horlicks54 11 months ago
Great song. Great singer. Great post. I love Youtube.
MrDavis746 11 months ago
My god, Bonnie Raitt, she is such a good singer. How she stands there quietly and offers her whole life, love and pain in this song. Thank you so much
singer62ify 11 months ago
I've always loved this song. :) a song that I can totally relate to. thanks for posting this video.:)
JenJui 11 months ago
Piano, so cool!!!
DivingHawk1 11 months ago
I live, feel, love, embrace and wrote this.....
billyconnearly 11 months ago
i really love this song... someday i will upload my video singing this lovely song....
thina0121 11 months ago
From a spiritual point, I could see how Jesus must have felt, especially as He went to the cross.
soap1919jt 1 year ago
@soap1919jt - I agree....how his heart must have broken knowing this. :( it's very heart wrenching. :(
JenJui 11 months ago
@soap1919jt Wow! I didn't think of that...gives it new meaning for me. Thanks.
djkj1652 11 months ago
@soap1919jt Oh Pleeeaaaassseeeee...........
Mountainbare2002 10 months ago
@soap1919jt Any connection to this song?
tshklar 10 months ago
This has got to be, arguably, one of the most hauntingly beautiful, ageless songs ever written -- a song that transcends all generations, tastes, preferences, etc. This is the type of song almost anyone can relate to in some way.
I personally don't know of anyone who doesn't love this song.
Now this is music!
soap1919jt 1 year ago
Best song ever.... never felt emotions through a song like this one. Bonnie you you have a true gift!
JossDeeDee 1 year ago
sooooooooooooooo sweet
slapjax28 1 year ago
is that bruse hors by on the 88,s??
slapjax28 1 year ago
True words. But I can love ;) Wspaniałe słowa.
novaxFLY 1 year ago
Beautiful.
peanutmoto 1 year ago
OMG, thats Bruce Hornsby on the keyboard...winna, winna...
rhurt87058 1 year ago
Who is the pianist, famous in his own right?
rhurt87058 1 year ago
@rhurt87058 Larry Bird....lol, he's nice though, REAL nice
FudgePro 1 year ago
It is still nice to be in love...........getting a little misty eyed though
kickdrumthunder 1 year ago
Probably had the worst night in my life. She left me because I closed her out. Im not perfect. Oh well. Healing process begins now.
filipinophreak 1 year ago
to J-bird again.....i see... on a back porch in July...sanctified on 17..... truth....
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How can you touch this? Really? I mean... I am a feeler.. an emotive conseuqeunce to myself... a retributive concept ion love's honor... Thank you a thousand times over for this song... To J-bird...... From L-Pop... FOREVER>.....
Tuliplume 1 year ago
How can you touch this? Really? I mean... I am a feeler.. an emotive conseuqeunce to myself... a retributive concept ion love's honor... Thank you a thousand times over for this song... To J-bird...... From L-Pop... FOREVER>.....
Tuliplume 1 year ago
man she sings this song!!! This is a very sad, but honest song :-/
reddz80 1 year ago
What an outstanding and magical performance
JoshGotLength 1 year ago
brilliant
elvisuk 1 year ago
Every time I hear this song I get misty eyed! Can't help it....Mz. Raitt expresses such a warmth and devotion to the power of love........For me it is her signature song!......It doesn't matter whether you're in love or out of love...if you have ever experienced the disappointment that love can sometimes bring then you can relate! ....
@fredfredvid Thank you for this awesome upload..it is truly a gem!!!
pumkin1785 1 year ago
Good god. How does one human being have so much soul?
davenit 1 year ago
I shall never tire of this song! It's timeless!
secretaryofink 1 year ago
What do you guys think about Tanks version of this. I think he did ok but I'm not a true bonnie follower. I just remember hearing this all the time on the """smooth jazz""" stations as a kid.
aminkhalil 1 year ago
Well said, Crest7878 ...... no one could own a song, heart and soul, like Bonnie ..... I have heard this version probably 500 times, and it STILL gives me gooseflesh, shivers, and the ultimate " musicgasm" ~
teezeeish 1 year ago 13
words can't even express how great this song is. a true classic. and no one, absoutely no one sings it better. And who better than Bruce Hornsby to accompany on keys...WOW
codia12 1 year ago 2
You had me @ "You". I still get inspired and a little choked up by this song,this performance and what Pure Talent looks like!
Rosco486 1 year ago
Shes hot
sonorin1 1 year ago
So many people have done so many shitty covers of this epic song. None can come close to the emotion in Bonnie's voice and the skill of Bruce on the piano.
Ilovetheplatypus 1 year ago
i could go to sleep to this song every night... so beautiful.
hotWatrman 1 year ago
Is that Bruce Hornsby?
ccro123 1 year ago
I like this song a lot bein licening to it for a long time, a few years ,
vampirespongelulu1 1 year ago
Great perfomance
pejorativeglut 1 year ago
2 people are def. that's the only reason not to like this. She is so amazing. I love my dead great grandpa's cousin. She has such a beautiful voice. I hope to be as good as her someday. =)
LowsyXcuse 1 year ago
This is truly a great perfromance... thanks for posting.
jeffrey2711 1 year ago
Shes so talented. At sixty one shes still as talented as she was back then.
timothyterry1 1 year ago
2:59 - 3:09...is absolutely spell bounding, soul wrenching, and hauntingly beautiful!!!
leolove 1 year ago
I am overwhelmed by this talent - Bonnie could have me as her eternal slave - I would crawl over broken glass just to feel her smile!
billyconnearly 1 year ago
it doesn't get any better than this - if you think you can sing/express/emote then watch this and think again!
billyconnearly 1 year ago
I listen to Death Metal and this song moves me like nothing else,
ObsidianErn 1 year ago
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i can't make Hornsby love me if he won't
mw383 1 year ago
i can't make Hornsby love me if he don't
mw383 1 year ago
I 'Ive had this happen to me its a hard realization when comes then you just got to move on.
27cuchillo 1 year ago
there were times when i just put this song on repeat and cried myself to sleep..
bbxie 1 year ago
Goosebumps!
mtjensen3 1 year ago
Brilliant!
mtjensen3 1 year ago
This is just totally awesome. She truly has soul. You can just feel it. The musicians are playing their buts off. Her phrasing, um.um.um
Hirsch68 1 year ago
Wow, just short of 48,000 views.. cannot believe that.. I know I've listened to this song at least 47,000 times and still love it everytime...
Knowvemberrain 1 year ago
This has got to be the most heart wrenching song ever recorded.
alohakeoni 1 year ago
this was the songs I listened to when I broke up with my man of 6 years. I just cried more than ever but at the end of the day, it made me so much stronger. The part when she says "I close my eyes and I wont see, the love you dont feel when your holding me" made me break down everytime I heard it but the end when she said "No use of me trying" made me wipe my tears. you can only give all of you. If its not accepted, then least you kno u gave ur all.
salaxxx21 1 year ago
@salaxxx21 You are so right,same here I can honestly say I gave it al I could, but It just wasnt enough,after all these years , how could anyone want more than i gave ? Well Ill be just fine, Ill close my eyes and I wont see either, but thats that .I really loved her with all my heart and soul, but it wasnt enough. happy trails .
soggybuilders 1 year ago
@soggybuilders Ill tell you. Ive been thru so much that now when i listen to this song, I can smile. Actually, alot of songs, I can smile & just enjoy the music. I used to listen to music & it would break me into tears. I hope you get thru your pain because i know its not easy to get thru. :-)
salaxxx21 1 year ago
@salaxxx21 You are so right,same here I can honestly say I gave it al I could, but It just wasnt enough,after all these years , how could anyone want more than i gave ? Well Ill be just fine, Ill close my eyes and I wont see either, but thats that .I really loved her with all my heart and soul, but it wasnt enough. happy trails .
soggybuilders 1 year ago
The sad thing is....if you play this song for anyone you love and are about to lose...you will feel the power...but they won't....no they won't........
>.<
Prometheus1st 1 year ago
Bonnie is absolutely amaizing!!!!!! She is so truly and simple in best way... She is the best!!!!
martom888 1 year ago
Loved this song since it came out in '90 or '91. True classic!
psfg100 1 year ago
I know this song all to well in my heart!
247Milagros 1 year ago
I felt this song last nite all ovr again. felt the love wasnt reciprocated....such a sad song
ericbwonder 1 year ago
OMG, while Bonnie Raitt's original version is a wonderful song and wonderfully done....George Michael's version just blows everyone else's out of the water....including Ms. Raitt's. You will appreciate Geoge's version even if you were never a fan of his or Wham UK! (LOL)
etmalloy 1 year ago
Bruce!
zachweber 1 year ago
Every time I listen to this song, it helps me peel another layer deeper into the onion of my life.
Prometheus1st 1 year ago
@Prometheus1st
I like your usage of
metaphor...lolz.
belennaire310 11 months ago
Awesome performance!
twinmomkathy 1 year ago
Incredible!! A Classic! No one has a voice like Bonnie that matches the depth of the song so amazing.
UltraReviewer2 1 year ago
ONE SIMPLE WORD. UNIK.
huahin123 1 year ago
One of my favorite songs ever and two of my favorite artists - Bruce is also incredible, this song is so emotional
organiclee 1 year ago
Does anyone knows who the woman playing percussion is?
lidiacatracha 1 year ago
Man, when this song came out, i bought the cassette and played it in my car so much that my toddler son started singing it because he had heard it so many times!
TranscendingFate1 1 year ago
this song must bring a place back for everyone
madmanmillett 1 year ago
@madmanmillett
so true....
UltraReviewer2 1 year ago
@UltraReviewer2 i remember talking to a girl at a bar who was crying to this song cause the guy she was with for 7 years was calling it quits.i could tell it hit her the way it was suppose to her just like this song
madmanmillett 1 year ago
@madmanmillett Never do anything to a girl like that except listen. That is what she needs. If you do that...you may miss on a 'score' but you will gain a friend. We all need more friends. I have none, no family, no friends...so,..yeah. Cherish and hold what you can.
PEACE
Prometheus1st 1 year ago
I remembering my mom listening to this song when my parents split, some eighteen years ago. I love this song. It is just so sad!
MistressACrowley 1 year ago
She is wonderful great backup on piano Bruce Hornsby
27cuchillo 1 year ago
beautiful subdued performance
jimnado1 1 year ago
lightning strikes my soul everytime I hear this, ultimate love-blues, Ms Raitt speaks for many of the heartbroken... including me
Pagliacciao1 1 year ago
I will always be moved by the lyrics of this song , I feel sad for the all the people that left the love that they dont see behind ,
sambohorns 1 year ago 2
one of the saddest song ive heard,and one of the only ones that move me to tears
bummercal 1 year ago
oe of the saddest song ive heard,and one of the only ones that move me to tears
bummercal 1 year ago
every time I listen to this song, I get chills
waaromishet 1 year ago
"I can't make you love me if you don't You can't make your heart feel something it won't." --- What else needs to be said?
wbinwv 1 year ago
She didn't need a controversial outfit , an amazing stage , out of this world rifts , all she needed was this song.
Matty3Mite3 1 year ago 2
Bonnie, Bruce Hornsby and a gut wrenching song ...what could be better!
Sameold2009 1 year ago 2
@Sameold2009 hey i THOUGHT that was bruce on keys!!! amazing
strabbs1 1 year ago
This song is so beautiful, and really speaks to me at this particular time in my life. What a lovely voice and song. Thanks for posting!
mcnorsky 1 year ago
This song is so beautiful, and really speaks to me at this particular time in my life. What a lovely voice and song. Thanks for posting!
mcnorsky 1 year ago
Actually, the title and subject of the song were taken from a feature story in the Nashville Tennessean newspaper--an interview with a man who had lost his home, lost his automobile and just lost his wife thru divorce. The reporter asked him if he felt like he'd been dumped on and he responded, "I can't make her love me if she don't." The story was spotted by songwriters Mike Reid and Allen Shamblin--and the rest is wonderful music history. Many thanks Mike, Allen an Bonnie!
TheJc937 1 year ago
George's cover of this song is one of my all time faves. But I am afraid it doesn't shine compared to Bonnie's original. Must be one of the most beautiful and saddest song ever written.
jagspage 1 year ago
nice song it very good
im like it
kukulutus 1 year ago
My eyes well up everytime I hear this beautiful song...one of the greatest songs ever written. 10/10
daviemcf 1 year ago 2
Mesmerizing!
MrAgelessness 1 year ago
I have tried many times to ad this song to my repertoire, but have never been able to get all the way through it without this huge lump forming in my throat. How Bonnie can sing it so beautifully and clear as a bell,I will never know. She and this song, meant for one another. You're both beautiful.
cutsbothways 1 year ago 3
Great music, Great Song! Awesome! Strong words to consider in that very tough time when deciding to let go.Thank you so much for this song it has helped me in so many ways. Always brings tears!!!! Somebody got it right. Incredible.
otaine1 1 year ago
Oh here come the tears!!! One of my favs
McMelittleE 1 year ago
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I never tire of this song. One of the most beautiful songs ever written and the way she performs it is so heart wrenching. An intimate expression and look at one's heart and it's desire.
Truitt5050 1 year ago
I never tire of this song. One of the most beautiful songs ever written and the way she performs it is so heart wrenching. An intimate expression and look at one's heart and it's desire.
Truitt5050 1 year ago 38
@Truitt5050 I soooo agree, so beautiful. Gives me a very warm feeling every time.
drumram 1 year ago
the perfect song the perfect singer.......as there ever been a more beautiful song.......i can`t make you love me...we`ve all been there boys....this song is so good it hurts
horlicks54 1 year ago
the last piano riff is plain AWESOME!!!
xodo25 1 year ago
incredible.
LeighAnnAlly2 1 year ago
Just a riveting song by the great Bonnie Raitt. She might have been fighting a cold and she still sounds awesome...
mannythedrummer 1 year ago
WOW and WOW!
Great song, great performance!
Did I say WOW?
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DanteStar7 1 year ago
Have been hearing and knowing this sentiment for many years. Thank you for giving me a place to go to remember the simple truth. What a beautiful song, and hearing Bruces' amazing accompanyment just caps the evening off.
woolst 1 year ago
Good music, is GOOD MUSIC and this song by MS Bonnie Raitt, is DA BOMB. No matter what race, religion or personnel belief. If you understand GOOD MUSIC or performance, YOU get this video and song. And I BETCHA................
SeanEric467 1 year ago
Maybe the best performance Ive heard. She is so sweet and blusey. I love her.
trapnellc 1 year ago
Absolutely incredible, beyond what words can describe. What this song does to me and for me; Bruce Hornsby performs beautifully alongside the blues songstress herself; awsome. This performance, awsome! Can't wait to sing with both of them. Signed, The Crosseyed Cat!
SharonRene 1 year ago
his it one of the best songs ever written. Maybe the best! - And she does it best!!
gdshepp 1 year ago
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gdshepp 1 year ago
No one can make some one feel something that is not there in their heart. Even if an unplanned child is involved. Women tend to think getting pregnant will tie the man to her and her child... He will walk away from her and the child at his first chance out.
pieces141127 1 year ago
@pieces141127 ...and the opposite holds true for a woman too, certainly not as often, but it was with me.
Elin48 1 year ago
Goosebumps every time I hear this song...
maroccomole 1 year ago
You know, I write songs and when you write songs its easy to feel like success comes down to a cosmic lottery of having the sound that people want to hear at the time. But this song disproves that. This song couldn't have been anything but one of the great songs of modern music. It's message is so simple and so universal, and yet it's original. Who else has expressed this idea so eloquently? I can't make you love me if you don't. What else needs to be said?
Crest7878 1 year ago 59
@Crest7878 I could not agree more
pawlyo1969 1 year ago
@Crest7878 really well said. and i think thats the root of all good music, like music that is actually good, that is pure and honest and is made out of necessity instead of just desire. the blues made an example of that--those cats didnt make music to get famous, they did it because it helped them get along thru life, it helped them heal. thats what musics about.
kreesu 1 year ago
@Crest7878 - Oh God do I agree with your assesement of this song. Kills me everytime I hear it and I can start to actually cry and I am no sensitive guy - it also gives me the chills...
mannythedrummer 1 year ago
@Crest7878 Indeed. What else needs to be said ? This is the saddest song I have ever heard. But sometimes it is the absolute painful truth that must be accepted. And move on. I wish I had never needed to say or feel the words to this song, but I did once. This is still a beautiful tune that so many of us can relate to at some point in our lives. This is what makes it so great, I think.
62view 1 year ago
@62view Oh yes, powerful indeed...The quintessential song for being in complete love, but realizing too late it's not mutual. Then, just wanting that last night together, no words, no explanations... no bullshit excuses to cheapen it...Feeling you must have that final night, in the darkness, with the one you know you'll never stop loving..
TheAlysheba 1 year ago 19
@TheAlysheba :'/
rickyseabra 11 months ago
@TheAlysheba i think you and i have felt the same pain about being in love with someone who doesn't love you and never will.
midatlanticcycle 11 months ago
@midatlanticcycle We probably have.. It's one of the worst feelings when that person acts as if they love you in return..and they do...to a point...for a while.. Then, for some reason, it fades.. You feel like you'd try to get them to feel it again, or try doing things to rekindle it all.. You then realize they just don't feel the same and you have that final night, sharing what you do have, and it's still like it was. It seems like a misunderstanding, but it isn't..that simple.
TheAlysheba 11 months ago
@TheAlysheba well said. it is one of the worst emotions known to mankind. has nothing to do with death and destruction...more along the lines of a total loss. fortunately the human mind is resilient and recovers fairly quickly from something like that.
midatlanticcycle 11 months ago
@Crest7878 Absolutely true and well said.. So simple, but no one had thoughts of this until Bonnie.. You feel like saying "yeah, that's exactly how I feel, why didn't I think of this?" You can't make the heart feel what it won't...don't patronize..perfection! So very true for many people and the pain of rejection is so difficult to understand, sometimes..The rest of the lyrics are the frosting on the cake.. Beautiful...
TheAlysheba 1 year ago
@Crest7878 Very well articulated!! Blessings
leolove 1 year ago
A very good piano man with Bonnie!
DivingHawk1 1 year ago
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robowing25 1 year ago
@DivingHawk1
Yep, that is the great Bruce Hornsby :) He is a fantastic musician in his own right. He has many hits. my fav is probably Mandolin Rain. and The way it is. You can listen to much of his work here on youtube.
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