teaching a robot to love

Prop you up before I turn you off

Check your chest to see the broken parts

Run my fingers through your holographic heart

All systems down

Operation 792

I'll paint your wires bloody red and blue

I'll try whatever to connect to you, but

You shut me out

Can you even feel?

Do you even register my touch?

Will you ever be able to love me someday?

I know you're made of steel

But does it even hurt to see me bleed?

Will you ever know what it means to be human?

(I don't know how)

I've been holding all the evidence

Cold and coded and expressionless

Artificial unintelligence

Don't pull the plug

I coulda sworn I caught you crying once

Or maybe I just made that up

But I'ma love you till they pick apart my skin and bones

And replace my heart with lithium and maybe we'll relate for once

Can you even feel?

Do you even register my touch?

Will you ever be able to love me someday? (I don't know how)

I know you're made of steel

Does it even hurt to see me bleed?

Will you ever know what it means to be human?

(I don't know how)

To touch

Feel

Love

I don't know how

To be

Human

To touch

Feel

Love

I don't know how

To be

Human

To touch

Feel

Love

I don't know how

To be

I don't know how