About The Song
“Love Walks In” is a power ballad by American rock band Van Halen released as the third single from the band’s seventh studio album, 5150 (1986). It was the first song the band wrote with vocalist Sammy Hagar. It peaked at number 4 on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart, and reached number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100.
To quote Hagar:
I’m a firm believer – have seen, have felt, have been contacted three or four different times. I have received information that has been valuable in my life from those people (extraterrestrial life), and they have used me. I’m gonna sound like a complete nut here, but they have used me in an experimental fashion. The easiest way to put it is that they downloaded my brain information.
Hagar wrote the lyrics on the spot and sang it live with a hand-held mic.
Billboard called it a “tricky little tune” that goes “from hard-rock swagger to a graceful chorus hook.”
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Lyrics
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
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
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
Oh 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
Oh, sleep and dream is 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
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
Then simply pulls a string
Love comes walkin’ in
Love comes walkin’ in
Baby, pull the string
Love comes walkin’ in
Love comes walkin’ in yeah