Van Halen

Released: July 23, 1986

Songwriter: Michael Anthony (Bassist) Sammy Hagar Eddie Van Halen Alex Van Halen

Producer: Mick Jones (Foreigner) Donn Landee Van Halen

[Verse 1]
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

[Chorus]
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
Then simply pulls a string

[Verse 2]
Another world, some other time
You lay your sanity on the line
Familiar faces, familiar sights
Reach back, remember with all your might

Ooh, and there she stands in a silken gown
Silver lights shining down

[Chorus]
And then 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
And simply pulls a string
Love comes walkin' in

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]
Oh, sleep and dream, that's all I crave
I travel far across the Milky Way
To my master, I become a slave
Till we meet again some other day

Where silence speaks as loud as war
Earth returns to what it was before

[Chorus]
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
Then simply pulls a string
Love comes walkin' in

[Guitar Solo/Outro]
(Love comes walkin' in) Baby, pull the string
(Love comes walkin' in)
Love comes walkin' in, yeah
Oh, yeah, oh

Van Halen is one of the most iconic American rock bands of all time. Formed in Pasadena, California in 1972, the group’s primary line-up consisted of Eddie Van Halen on guitar, Alex Van Halen on drums, David Lee Roth providing lead vocals, and Michael Anthony providing bass duties and significant harmonies.

Their first six albums, recorded and released between 1977–1984, are considered to be classics and pioneering efforts in the field of hard rock. Eddie Van Halen’s groundbreaking guitar sound and techniques completely changed the landscape of music and radio culture in the 1980s. His and brother Alex’s virtuosity, along with David Lee Roth’s charisma and bassist Michael Anthony’s foundational contributions garnered the band early comparisons to their predecessors—Led Zeppelin—a group who had a profound influence on them. Though, even more so than Jimmy Page, Eddie cites Eric Clapton as having the biggest impact on his playing.

In 1977, after recording a demo with Gene Simmons (who wanted the band to change their name to “Daddy Longlegs”) they were introduced to KISS‘ management, who told Simmons they wouldn’t sign them

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