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


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Love Walks In Lyrics as written by Edward Van Halen Alex Van Halen

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    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

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