Rockstar Sammy Hagar says the lyrics for 'Love Walks In' came from 'Outer Space' and then learned the true significance from Chris Bledsoe & 'The Lady'
“When Eddie played me that piano part, I got goosebumps. That song is about aliens.” 🛸👽
In 1986, Van Halen recorded Love Walks In on 5150. Sammy has said for years the lyrics came from real contact experiences and from the idea of “walk-ins,” beings that can enter a life and change it. He has described being contacted more than once, seeing a craft, and feeling information downloaded. The hook he wrote that night includes lines like “Contact is all that it takes to change your life, to lose your place in time” and “some kind of alien waits for the opening.”
Chris Bledsoe has long said “The Lady” gave him a short list of songs that carried a message, and Love Walks In was one of them. When Sammy later learned that story, he said it gave him goosebumps. The two men became friends. Decades after Chris played the album on repeat in the family car, Sammy invited him to a show, shouted him out, and the circle closed.
The facts on record are simple. A rock star has publicly described contact since the late 1960s. An experiencer family was told the same song held a message. They met. The song still plays.