You Can't Make Love Lyrics

Lyric discussion by La_Grange57 

Cover art for You Can't Make Love lyrics by Don Henley

You can make, in literal sense, like create, money, friends, and an easier life. But you can't create love. What he's saying is that the word love has been synonymized to too many other things that you can create, but true love has to just happen. You just gotta keep your eyes open for when you find it, cuz you can't make it yourself. It pokes fun at the common phrase "Make Love", because what that has come to mean has nothing to do with real love itself.