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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    My Interpretation

    This song is about being contacted by a past love after a long period of time through a dream while asleep.

    "Contact is all it takes, to change your life, to lose your place in time" (picture being married with two kids and some past love shows up in your dream one night. That's all it takes to lose your place in time... to forget about your current situation and think about what might have been had you never split from your past).

    "Contact, asleep or awake coming around you may wake up to find" (whether you've dreamed about this past love or were actually directly contacted by them, you come to realize maybe that's the person you're really meant to be with. Not your current spouse or partner).

    "Questions deep within your eyes, now more than ever, you realize" (you already had a feeling that the one you're with isn't the one you're meant to be with for eternity, and now you really realize you made the wrong decision after this contact from the past).

    "And then you sense a change, Nothing feels the same, all your dreams have changed, love comes walking in" (Those old feelings come back, your dreams with your current spouse, partner, and/or family no longer matter. Everything in your future that you've been planning for doesn't matter because you realize it's all wrong. You made the wrong decision years ago. You've fallen back in love with your past lover).

    "Some kind of alien looks for an opening and simply pulls the string" (Alien... something foreign. Not something from outer space... The person who has contacted you from the past is the alien. They're looking for an opening in your current relationship so they can move back in. This person has always loved you and knows that they have such power over you that they control you and the strings to get you back. Like on a marionette.

    "Another world, some other time, you lay your sanity on the line" (You think and remember back when you were with this person. You question yourself if you're nuts to be thinking about leaving your current situation for this past love).

    "Familiar faces, familiar sights, reach back and remember with all your might" (again, remembering the past with this person and things you may have done and experiences you may have had with him/her. You try with all your might to remember because you realize those were more pleasant times than with your current situation).

    "There she stands in a silken gown, silver lights shining down" (Tied into the previous line. You could have married her. You think back to when you used to think about marrying her and seeing her walk down the isle in a wedding gown to be with you. But it actually never happened).

    "Oh sleep and dream are all I crave, I travel far across the Milky Way" (Now that narrator has been contacted by the past love, being with this person is now all that matters. Actual conscious interaction with his current partner means nothing anymore. He gets to be with this past love only when sleeping and dreaming.)

    "To my master, I become a slave, 'til we meet again some other day" (He knows that his actions are dependent on this past love, but that he can not leave his current situation. He's going to only be reunited with the past love when they die.

    "Where silence speaks as loud as war, Earth returns to what it was before" (His current spouse or partner knows he doesn't love her and that he yearns to be with someone else, but speaks nothing of it and does not confront him due to possibly losing him and pushing him away. As a result, 'Earth returns to what it was before'. - the same hum-drum life that they were leading together. Nothing will change. The decisions made long ago can not be gone back on and corrected. But we can dream about what could have been).

    skennedy97on July 12, 2017   Link

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