January 23, 2013

• 3 AM “I Can’t Make You Love Me” cover

   

  Hope y’all enjoy.

  3:30 am:

  I found that recording this at 3am felt much more appropriate. Had to be cautious to not wake the roommate up and have him smother me in my sleep later.

  Covering the Bonnie Rait original with a Bon Iver-flavored imagination. Quickly recorded and quickly mixed, a completely raw one take session.

   

  “I Can’t Make You Love Me” covered by Breebs

  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 lonely 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 feel better now.

   

  Good night.

  -b.

   

  PS: I know I’m saying “you” in the chorus. Intentional.

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