Summary: I can't make you love me, no matter how hard I try. I know that. Just let me pretend for one more night. Just one more night?
Disclaimer: I don't own the anime (sadly x3) and I don't own the song (but it IS a gorgeous song). Song; 'I Can't Make You Love Me' - George Michael.
Author's Notes: Yeah... I don't much like this one. -Shrug- I've definately written better.
I Can't Make You Love Me
Turn down the light
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 patronise
Don't patronise me
The sparks are all gone, I know that. I know that there's no chance in making everything the way it was when this first started, and I know that there's no changing your mind. No, once you decide something, it stays that way forever. And it's breaking my heart. When you pulled the blanket over my shoulders, just like you did before you stopped feeling the same way, my heart skipped a beat... before I remembered... it was just a simple gesture.
'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
I've gone over all the ways that I've come up with in vain attempts to get you to look at me the same way as you did then, and every result just broke my heart a little more, to know I loved a man who would never love me back. Not the same way I loved you, and never the way that you'd loved me before. Reaching behind me, I gently pull your arm around me. Let me just pretend. Just for now.
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 till then to give up this fight
And I will give up this fight
Tonight will be the last night. The last night where I take up your time, the last night where I pretend that you still love me... because I know it's hurting you. And the last thing I ever wanted to do was hurt you. And I know that you never meant to hurt me. But love isn't something you can just... make happen, right? Sadly, I know I'm right. I've been trying to prove myself wrong for far too long.
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
And I know that when you think I'm asleep, you toss and turn, trying to get yourself to love me again, mumbling and trying to convince yourself that you never stopped. I try so hard not to cry, because I hear every reason why you fell in love with me, and you can't come up with one to say why it just... stopped. And I hear you cry, and laugh, but I never hear 'oh yeah... I do still love him, don't I?'
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...
No, Roy Mustang, I think it's time I gave up my most addictive drug. You. I'm addicted to everything about you, and now I have to try to stop thinking about you every waking moment, and try to get you out of my dreams... I wish it was that easy... even for me, the FullMetal Alchemist, the boy who doesn't cry because he doesn't want to scare his little brother, I can't just stop loving you. I desperately wish I knew how to quit you.