Contact is all it takes
To change your life to lose your
place in time
Contact! asleep or awake
Coming around you may wake up
to find
Questions deep within your
eyes,
Now more than ever you realize

So when you sense a change
Nothing feels the same
All your dreams are strange,
love comes walkin' in
Some kind of alien
Waits for the opening
Then simply pulls a string

Another world, some other time
You lay your sanity on the line
Familiar faces familiar sights
Reach back remember with all
your might
Ohh there she stands in a
silken gown
Silver lights shining down

So when you sense a change
Nothing feels the same
All your dreams are strange,
love comes walkin' in
Some kind of alien
Waits for the opening
Then simply pulls a string, love
comes walkin' in

Sleep and dream is all I crave
I travel far across the milky way
To my master I become a slave\
Tel we meet again some other day
Where silence speaks as loud
as war
And the earth returns to what it
was before

So when you sense a change
Nothing feels the same
All your dreams are strange,
love comes walkin' in
Some kind of alien
Waits for the opening
Then simply pulls a string, love
comes walkin' in



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Track duration: 05:11

"Love Walks In" as written by Edward/van Halen Van Halen

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    General Comment:My thought on this song is it's about teenage pregnancy.
    "Contact is all that it takes
    To change your life, to lose your place in time
    Contact. Asleep or awake
    Coming around you may wake up to find" - Having sex... all it takes is one time!!
    "And then you sense a change
    Nothin' feels the same
    All your dreams are strange
    Love comes walkin' in
    Some kind of alien
    Waits for the opening
    Simply pulls a string" - Everything changes. The "alien" is the sperm and the egg has the little opening.
    "Ooh, and there she stands in a silken gown
    Silver lights shinin' down" - Having the baby. The big light in the doctors office.
    Flag detre7on May 05, 2013   Link
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    My Opinion:Great tune, one of my favorites. This song is NOT about "romantic" love. It´s about an out of body experience, lucid dream or astral projection. Very clear for those that can relate, maybe that is the way it was intended.
    Flag MSMCHon April 11, 2013   Link
  • 0
    Song Meaning:Alright, I've finally figured out all this time what this song is about.

    It's a reference to Lilith/Lilitu.

    This is the only thing that explains all the imagery from silken gown to silver lights to being like 'some kind of alien'.

    Lilith is occult figure generally known to appear during the 'night' or the 'dream state'. In some of the Jewish Folklore and Biblical references she is referred to as a succubus or demon.

    But in the occult, she is often referenced as the embodiment of love and wisdom(or enlightenment).
    Flag ThereIsNoEyeon April 01, 2013   Link
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    My Opinion:I don't know why somebody has to relate this song with ETs, space travelling, abductions, and any other X-Files thing. Although my natural language is spanish and I live in Cuba, I just think that only by looking at the song title one can guess what this song is about: the coming of love.
    The song starts and ends defining all the new feelings and sensations that love brings to the people when real, ultimate love is finally here with us. Surely, I guess that no one can say "I felt in love and life doesn't change for me, everything was the same as ever..." or a similar phrase denying the impact of love in every people.
    Flag Abikuon April 11, 2012   Link
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    My Interpretation:You guys don't get it. This is so simple yet impact-full. Who knows when you will really fall in love? Will you already be married when someone else enters the picture?

    What Sammy is telling us love can happen anytime at any place, even if you do not realize it until it has actually occurred. The alien metaphor maybe a little strange yet realizing you are in love with someone is also strange. And yes the strings will make you do things that you never done otherwise. Master and slave, Sting sand about that as well.
    Flag jakec8ton January 28, 2012   Link
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    My Interpretation:It's definitely about falling in love for the first time (perhaps losing one's virginity as Zepfreak suggested) or finding real love that's far more genuine than any previous relationship.
    Flag NeglectedFieldon October 20, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:When this song first came out, I thought it was about losing your virginity.
    Flag Zepfreakon July 30, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:To the above...I know what this song is about. Sammy Hagar either took part in an occult group or was, most likely, part of an experimental mind control program when he was younger.

    If you do some research on those topics the origin of the song becomes quite clear. A lot of 70's artists wrote lyrics, or had lyrics written for them, that were written in code that makes sense to somebody who is involved in the occult.

    I'm not involved in the occult, witchcraft, or mind control. I've just done a lot of research on those subjects. It's funny how these old songs...lyrics I never put much thought into...make sense to me now. It's almost like listening to them for the first time again.
    Flag ThereIsNoEyeon June 24, 2011   Link
  • 0
    Song Meaning:The true meaning of this song is clear and deliberate to those who are meant to understand it...I know what it means because I fall into the category of the people who are meant to understand it...I guess it shouldn't surprise me that hardly anybody knows the true meaning of the song...I am yet to find anyone online yet who does...but these forums are limited in a sense...bottom line...there are only two types of people that are meant to understand what the meaning of this song is...true witches, or those who have studied and understand witchcraft...if you don't fall into one of these two categories, you will remain clueless to the true meaning of the song...you aren't meant to know...you will never understand
    Flag islapillumination February 17, 2011   Link
  • -1
    General Comment:no fuckin way this is about god. Its about finding a fresh new love and the various ways it affects your whole life
    Flag wereTHRIVINGon July 24, 2010   Link

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