Natalia Kills

Activate My Heart

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Activate My Heart Lyrics

I've been played around
Love has let me down
Tore my feelings out (robot, robot lover)

I refuse to hurt
I refuse to cry
Not another time (robot, robot lover)

I know I need to be rewired
I want to love again
Don't think my heart is just a hard drive
I'm just malfunctioning

Show me how to love
Show me where to start (show, show)
Show me how to love
Show me where to start (show me)
Show me how to love
Show me where to start
Activate my heart
Cause it don't work anymore
Show me how to love
Show me where to touch
Teach me how to smile (robot, robot lover)

I can learn to kiss
I feel happiness
I can be the one (robot, robot lover)

I came equipped with all the same parts
I'm not just megabytes
So hold me close while I push restart
So I can love you right

Show me how to love
Show me where to start
Activate my heart (show me how to love activate my heart)
Show me how to love
Show me where to start
Activate my heart (show me how to love activate my heart)
Show me how to love
Show me where to start (show, show)
Show me how to love
Show me where to start (show me)
Show me how to love
Show me where to start
Activate my heart
Cause it don't work anymore
Show me how to love
Show me how to love
Show me how to (memory)
Show me love (damaged) love

S-s-s-show me how to love
Show me how to love
Show me how to love
Show me how to love
(Show me how to) love
Show me how to love (malfunction)
Show me how to love
How to love
Show me how to love

(Show me how to) love
Arti-artificial heart
Show me how to
Activate my heart (Show me how to love, activate my heart)

Show me how to love
Show me where to start
Activate my heart
Cause it don't work anymore

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cassandrablu On Dec 07, 2010

I've been played around 
Love has let me down 
Tore my feelings out  (robot, robot lover)

I refuse to hurt 
I refuse to cry 
Not another time  (robot, robot lover)

I know I need to be rewired 
I want to love again 
Don't think my heart is just a hard drive 
I'm just malfunctioning

Show me how to love
Show me where to start (show, show)
Show me how to love
Show me where to start (show me)
Show me how to love
Show me where to start 
Activate my heart 
Cause it don't work anymore 
Show me how to love 
Show me where to touch 
Teach me how to smile (robot, robot lover)

I can learn to kiss 
I feel happiness 
I can be the one (robot, robot lover)

I came equipped with all the same parts 
I'm not just megabytes 
So hold me close while I push restart 
So I can love you right

Show me how to love
Show me where to start
Activate my heart (show me how to love activate my heart)
Show me how to love
Show me where to start
Activate my heart (show me how to love activate my heart)
Show me how to love
Show me where to start (show, show)
Show me how to love
Show me where to start (show me)
Show me how to love
Show me where to start 
Activate my heart 
Cause it don't work anymore
Show me how to love 
Show me how to love 
Show me how to (memory) 
Show me love (damaged) love

S-s-s-show me how to love 
Show me how to love 
Show me how to love 
Show me how to love 
(Show me how to) love 
Show me how to love  (malfunction)
Show me how to love 
How to love 
Show me how to love

(Show me how to) love 
Arti-artificial heart 
Show me how to 
Activate my heart (Show me how to love, activate my heart)

Show me how to love
Show me where to start 
Activate my heart 
Cause it don't work anymore

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CassandraBlu

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2010-12-07 17:04:18

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by PiGirl13

13y ago

The way I see it, this song who has had a bad experience in the area of love in the past, and this made her shut off the romantic part of herself. When she's getting close to getting into another relationship, she immediately starts analyzing the situation and comparing and contrasting it with the heartbreak she went through (hence the robot imagery), and she can't just let herself feel love. However, she doesn't want to be doing this, and she wants him to help her remember what love was like before the heartbreak. This is hinted at in the chorus, the second verse ("Show me how to love, show me where to touch, teach me how to smile") and in the words spoken in the background of the bridge: "Memory damaged".

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