# Usual song lyrics- what's the song thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usual-song-lyrics-whats-the-song-thread/467267
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 10, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usual-song-lyrics-whats-the-song-thread/467267 "2008-10-10T01:58:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ricth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricth)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usual-song-lyrics-whats-the-song-thread/467267/1 "2008-10-10T01:58:37Z")
I have heard a song playing in my gym that I have never heard anywhere else and no one knows who sings it. It is a moderately tempo song with a melancholy sounding female voice. The chorus goes something like- “I can’t make you love me…I can’t make me love you.” I have tried several lyric sites but have not come up with anything beyond the Bonnie Raitt song and its copies. Throw out some suggestions for me to try out.
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usual-song-lyrics-whats-the-song-thread/467267/2 "2008-10-10T01:59:59Z")
Bonnie Raitt?
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlrXIvMmG3s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlrXIvMmG3s)
EDITED TO ADD:
Maybe I should read before I post. Sorry… I’ll keep looking for you.
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2008, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usual-song-lyrics-whats-the-song-thread/467267/3 "2008-10-10T02:02:09Z")
Oh, I do know the song you mean, I think…
Butterfly Boucher - “I can’t make me love you.”
She’s an Aussie singer that had a great album a couple years ago called “Flutterby” with that song on it. I’ve seen her perform a few times and she’s fantastic… And super cute too.
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4lUcjMWaX4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4lUcjMWaX4)
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### Author:  [@ricth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricth)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/usual-song-lyrics-whats-the-song-thread/467267/4 "2008-10-10T16:43:04Z")
Butterfly is the one. Thank you for putting my mind at rest, now I can check out some of her other music.