Style: Hard Rock / Eddie VH style Album: Balance © 1995
1. The Seventh Seal 2. Can't Stop Lovin' You 3. Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do) 4. Amsterdam 5. Big Fat Money 6. Strung Out 7. Not Enough 8. Aftershock 9. Doin' Time 10. Baluchitherium 11. Take Me Back (Deja' Vu) 12. Feelin' 13. Crossing Over
Vocals: Sammy Hagar
Guitars/Keys: Edward Van Halen
Bass Guitar: Michael Anthony
Drums: Alex Van Halen
The Seventh Seal
Walk me down to the wishing well help me find that miracle splash that holy water on me drown my faith in trinity, yeah! oh yeah Little by little, gonna get it, I swear one more piece of the puzzle, I'm there gotta get lucky gotta get that done little bit of luck never hurt no one come on take me down, down, down.... I'm in a cold sweat Lord don't let me drown, drown, drown, drown in mother earth's soul, yet under darken skies we'll see the light broken now I can't help but feel someone cracked the seventh seal nothing sacred, nothing left unturned when nothing's simple then nothing's learned so take me down to the virgin spring wash away my suffering, oh splash that holy water on me wash my eyes so I can see come on take me down, down, down.... I'm in a cold sweat Lord don't let me drown, drown, drown, drown in mother earth's soul, not yet Lord I think I found, found, found.... my mother lode, hey down, down, down, down, down, down, take me down, down, down, down.... take me Can't Stop Lovin' You
There's a time and place for everything, for everyone we can push with all our might, but nothing's gonna come oh no, nothing's gonna change and if I asked you not to try oh could you let it be I wanna hold you and say we can't throw this all away tell me you won't go, you won't go do you have to hear me say I can't stop lovin' you and no matter what you say or do you know my heart is true, oh I can't stop lovin' you you can change your friends, your place in life you can change your mind we can change the things we say and do it anytime oh no, but I think you'll find that when you look inside your heart oh baby, I'll be there hold on I'm holding on baby, just come on, come on, come on I just wanna hear you say I can't stop lovin' you and no matter what you say or do you know my heart is true, oh I can't stop lovin' you oh, I'm twisted and tied and all I can remember is how hard we tried only to surrender and when it's over I know how it's gonna be and true love will never die no, not fade away I can't stop lovin' you and no matter what you say or do you know my heart is true, oh I can't stop lovin' you and I know what I got to do hey ray, what you said is true I can't stop lovin' you, oh oh, I can't stop lovin' you Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)
It's ok, I'll do what I want if I choose, I can take the fall there's a choice it's my destiny in my hands yeah it's up to me I can drive I can shoot a gun in the streets score me some heroin I can jump be the sacrifice bear my cross just like Jesus Christ and I don't wanna hear what love can do no, I ain't gonna tell ya what's right for you is it right to take the easy way close your eyes get on your knees and pray now you're saved by a higher voice givin' up, givin' up, givin' up your choice if I'm wrong then I'll pay for it if I'm right, yeah you're gonna hear about it but I've tried, yeah I've tried for it I tried, I tried, 'til I'm satisfied and I...... I'm tired of hearing what love can do and I..... ain't gonna tell you what's right for you I've seen the damage done down with the shotgun don't stop the setting sun on my kingdom come ohhhh....... is it right to take the easy way I don't know I get on your knees and pray now I'm saved by a higher voice givin' up, givin' up, givin' up my choice if I'm wrong then I'll pay for it if I'm right, yeah you're gonna deal with it 'cause I've tried, yeah I tried for it I tried, I tried, even die for it no I..... don't wanna hear what love can do no I.... I can't tell you what's right for you oh I.... I... I..... tell you what love can do no I... I... I... can't say but your time is through I've seen the damage done oh Lord, I've heard the shotgun I fought the setting sun on my kingdom come ohhh....... don't tell me what love can do hey, hey, hey don't tell me what love can do hey, hey, hey Amsterdam
Looking good through the window shinin' red and blue light a little thick in the bottom but still lookin' alright, yeah got a pocket full of money got me a long night ahead a quick stop in the Bulldog score me some Panama red, yeah wham, bam, oh Amsterdam yea, yea, yea stone you like nothin' else can yea, yea, yea hot damn, roll an Amsterdam yea, yea, yea if she can't, then nothin' else can caught a plane outta Moscow spent one cold night in Berlin it's a long hard way but I'm a'comin', back again, yea wham, bam, oh Amsterdam yea, yea, yea stone you like nothin' else can yea, yea, yea yea come on now, roll an Amsterdam yea, yea, yea if she can't, then nothin' else can yea, yea, yea..... wham, bam, oh Amsterdam yea, yea, yea stone you like nothin' else can yea, yea, yea hot damn, roll an Amsterdam yea, yea, yea if she can't, then nothin' else can yea, yea, yea wham, bam, oh Amsterdam yea, yea, yea you don't have to worry about the man yea, yea, yea hot damn, burn an Amsterdam yea yea, yea, yea stone me like nothin' else can yea, yea, yea Big Fat Money
some say money is bad for the soul bad for the rock, bad for the roll bad for the heart, bad for the brain bad for damn near everything oh yeah..... it must be good for something come on pay the rent telephone, telefax, telefunkin' teletrash tell a cop, tell a friend, think we hit the stoney end nothing left, nothing right now they want a bigger bite everybody wants some everybody wants big money, oh yeah they want big, fat money that's what I want big fat money too much temptation enough to kill a generation space station, starvation, premature ejaculation this ain't groovin', this ain't funky it's on my back but it ain't my monkey, no oh yeah, gimme some of that big, fat money that's what I want big fat money big fat money smoke this, eat that my ol' lady's gettin' fat high rise, high rent before it's earned, it's all been spent where's it gonna come from? who's it gonna go to? ain't beatin', but I'm being eatin' by money, oh yeah big, big money, gimme, gimme, gimme some of that big, fat money, alright that's what I want well alright, oh, big, big money now gimme, gimme, gimme some of that big money that's what I want that's all I need gimme big, fat money gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme gimme some of that big fat money Not Enough
To love somebody naturally to love somebody faithfully to love somebody equally is not enough is not enough is not enough to love somebody secretly and never touch to love somebody honestly and always trust to love somebody tenderly the tender touch is not enough is not enough love hurts sometimes it's not so easy to find, no searchin' everywhere you turn and swear it's always been there to love somebody foolishly can happen once to love somebody hopelessly it hurts so much to love somebody equally is not enough is not enough is not enough love takes a little time it's not so easy to find, no searchin' everywhere you turn and swear she's always been there standin' there....oh and if it don't come easily one thing you must believe you can always have trust in me because my heart will always be yours honestly love hurts sometimes it's not so easy to find, no searchin' everywhere then turn and swear it's always been there standin' there love hurts sometimes not yours, it's not mine, no love's only to share turn and swear it's everywhere standin' there 'cause it's always been there Aftershock
I don't care about the way that ya treated me and I ain't crying 'bout the love I'm paying for no, I ain't bitchin' 'bout the things you been puttin' down here in the street no, I ain't going 'round saying things about you, I can't repeat hey it ain't gonna change overnight, no and it ain't gonna change without a fight, no now I ain't saying that I'm never gonna beg you, oh baby come back but right now baby, I don't really wanna see your face yeah, and that's a fact right now, honey all I know is what I'm feelin' inside right now, baby I'm alone and I'm swallowing a lot of pride and it ain't gonna change overnight, no and it ain't gonna change without a fight livin' with the aftershock why, why, why, I never thought she'd walk but now I'm livin' with the aftershock and it ain't gonna change, it ain't goin' away, no yeah, she opened up my eyes seeing what I wanna see she kinda took me by surprise showed me what I hadn't seen yeah, yeah livin' with the aftershock yeah, yeah livin' with the aftershock my, my, my I guess that I never thought she'd walk livin' with the aftershock and it ain't going to change, it ain't going away I said it ain't going to change without a fight I'm livin' with the aftershock I'm livin' with the aftershock never gonna change Take Me Back (Deja Vu)
I thought I saw you in the distance I thought I'd found you once again touched on that feelin' for an instant could not recall just where or when oh no some desert island off Morocco we had a love so hard to find oh so full of life, so free and easy another place, another time, oh take me back I wanna be there with you it happened just like that slip in a dream or two come on, take me back oh, deja vu one soul, one mind one light that shines one love, so fine oh, come on, take me back some call it fate, some superstition some call it luck, it's all the same just one of the mysteries of creation somethin' you feel but can't explain oh, take me back I wanna be there with you it happened just like that I've fallin' deep into oh girl, come on I want you to take me there oh, I know, I know, I know, I know..... take me back, baby I swear I've been with you it happened just like that send me a dream or two come on, take me back oh, deja vu Feelin'
Outta touch most the time gotta lotta things on my mind kickin' down, where to start it's the hardest thing, oh..... grow it long, shave it off life is hard, never soft I need a change, I need it quick before it makes me sick that's what's on my mind pay attention, watch your back pay your dues, stay on track got no room to second guess puts me under stress, oh..... if I were you, you were me I wonder who I'd wanna be with just one wish you can't refuse I wouldn't know what to choose feelin'....no, don't like what I've been told I'm feelin' feelin' what no one else will ever know I'm feelin', oh.... now black is white and white is black got politicians smokin' crack and John Paul's all bullet-proofed it puts me through the roof, yea.... I were you and you were me I wonder who I'd rather be if I had one wish I'd, take it feelin'....no, don't like what I've been told I'm feelin' and I'm seein' what no one else will ever know I'm seein' come on, feelin' hey, I don't understand these things I'm feelin', no.... outta touch most the time too many things on my mind shuttin' down, gotta stop this thing feelin'....no, I don't like what I've been told I'm feelin' I'm bleedin'...like no one else will ever know I'm bleedin' dealin'....I'm dealin' with these things I'm feelin' I'm dreamin', I'm dreamin', I'm dreamin' things that show me what I'm seein' seein'... I'm seein' things that I don't know I'm feelin' I've been feelin', I'm feelin', I'm feelin' things that I don't know I don't know, In don't know what I'm seein' hey, I don't understand