Album: 5150 (1986)

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• The love line is never straight and narrow
  Unless your love is tried and true
  We take a chance with new beginnings
  Still we try win or lose
  Take the highs with the blues
  
  Always one more
  You're never satisfied
  Share one for all with you
  It's only one for me
  Ah, why draw the line
  And meet you half the way
  And you don't know
  What the means, oh yeah
  
  I feel like a running politician, oh
  Just trying to please you all the time
  I've given you myself with no conditions
  Going wide, running long
  Feeling lost but not for long
  
  Always one more
  You're never satisfied
  Share one for all with you
  It's only one for me
  So why draw the line
  Meet you half the way
  When you don't know
  What that means, oh yeah
  
  Always one more
  You're never satisfied
  Share one for all with you
  It's only one for me
  So why draw the line
  And meet you half the way
  When you don't know
  What that means
  
  I'll meet you half the way
  Whoa yeah
  I'll meet you half the way
  Whoa yeah Writer/s: Alex Van Halen, Edward Van Halen, Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony
  Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

• Jose from Puerto RicoProbably my fav song from the Sammy Era. Eddie is literally on fire with his guitar playing in this tune!
• Englishjello from LondonEddie and studio engineer Donn Landee where hanging in Eddie's newly built studio listening to a police scanner. They heard a officer say "5150". They soon found out it's a Los Angeles police code for a escaped mental patient. Eddie decided to name the studio that (He also put stickers of it on his striped guitars). Eddie did come up with the music for this song and it's a killer song. One of the Van Halen's best songs in the Hagar era!
• Joe Bloggs from Trinidad And TobagoThe number 5150 and "meet you half the way" in the lyrics made me think it was a reference to a Senate tie breaking vote-- implying a failure to reach a compromise between 2 sides.
• Joe from SfIn the film "Collateral" Tom Cruise shoots a guy who later appears in the morgue with "5150" tattooed on his eye lid. Two possibilities: the Van Halen song or the 72-hour psychiatric hold. Based on the guy's career choice, I'll go with the latter... Greg House is correct.
• Greg House from Columbia, ScActually 5150 is the code for involuntary psychiatric hold.
• Jason from Florence, KyThe version Simon is speaking of is by a band called Charge. They were based out of New Orleans, I belive. I think they changed lead singers and moved to Vegas.
• Jason from Florence, KyA great song off a great album...one of VH's best of either era (don't even bring up Gary), IMO. By the way, the version Simon is referring to (the one that sounds like Axl Rose singing) is by the band Charge.
• Simon from Nijmegen, NetherlandsOn the internet there is a fake going 'round that would like us to believe that axl rose is singing with ed and the guys.. No dice. Don't know who these guys are but it's pretty good
• Eric from Salt Lake City, UtI love this song. It was the song that sold me on Sammy Hagar replacing Dave. The rest of the album was great, but this was the clincher.

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