it's got what it takes so tell me why can't this be love lyrics

The song is driven by bouncy lead keyboard work from Eddie Van Halen performed on an Oberheim OB-8. It was also a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom, Australia and Germany and a top 20 single in Canada, the Netherlands and Sweden. It was a hit single for the band, rising to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US and helping 5150 reach the number one slot on the albums chart, a first for the band. It was released on both 7' and 12' single formats, the 12' single featuring an extended version of the song. It was the group's first single with lead vocalist Sammy Hagar, who replaced founding member David Lee Roth. The song was released as the lead single from 5150 through Warner Bros. Moving through the night till what’s lost is found.' Why Can't This Be Love' is a song by the American rock band Van Halen for their seventh studio album, 5150 (1986). I keep looking in the mirror but it’s still not around.

Think I’m moving towards it then it’s out of sight. Somewhere in the distance shines a heavenly light. Say a little prayer it don’t float out to sea. Mighty Mississippi bring my heart back to me. Sitting on the levee with a drink in my hand, time is of the essence you’re a wanted man. The light's slowly fading and my heart just keeps on breaking. Lovers kissing in the dark and someone’s telling lies.īut you got it now, and you don’t know how. Play another love song it just don’t seem right. I keep busy in the day and stay home at night, cigarette smoking in the candlelight. Snaking through the valley I would follow it down. I could cry myself a river take a boat out of town.

There’s a hole in my chest where my heart used to be and I’m wishing on a star that it comes back to me. I’d even break a heart, hell I’d break two, if only I could stop the pain, of loving you… I could go anywhere, like you’ve always gone. I called your name but there was no reply. You said I was your lover, you said that i would never be your friend, you said I’d never lose you, and that we’d be together in the end. I’d even break a heart, hell I’d break two, if only I could stop the pain, of loving you. Rode down to Opelousas, rode down there with the devil on my back, well I caught a train to Nashville, I caught it and I’m never coming back. You said it out of love, you said that we would never fall apart, you said I’d never lose you, you said that it would never be this hard.

It's got what it takes so tell me why can't this be love lyrics