Finish What Ya Started

About Finish What Ya Started

"Finish What Ya Started" is a song by Van Halen taken from their 1988 album OU812. Despite the album being seemingly complete, Eddie Van Halen came up with the riff at 2 in the morning and went down to his then-neighbor Sammy Hagar to show it. Hagar let Eddie in, and the two played guitars in his balcony until they had a completed song. Once Eddie left, Hagar decided to write the lyrics despite being late at night. The theme wound up being unfulfilled sex, summed up by Hagar as "blue balls". In the song, Eddie recorded his guitar part on a Fender Stratocaster plugged direct into the studio mixing console. The song is one of only two Van Halen tracks featuring Hagar playing a rhythm guitar part, which he played on a Gibson acoustic. The official music video for the song was directed by Andy Morahan. It features the band playing against a plain white background with quick cuts to women dancing. The version of the song on their 2004 compilation The Best of Both Worlds stops midway through the outro, unlike the fade out on the OU812 version. more »

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1996

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One, two, one, two, three
Come on baby
Oh oh oh

Well if you wanna see other guys
Baby, I could let it slide
You want a lover, you want a friend
Mama, I can be both of them

I got the tools to satisfy
Just walk away, if I fall shy at all

Come on baby finish what you started
I'm incomplete
That ain't no way to treat the broken hearted
I need some sympathy

I like to look, to long run
I like to take each step, one by one
Right on time, you will arrive
By keepin' the dream alive

It's alive and it's kickin' inside of me
So come on baby, please

Come on baby finish what you started
I'm incomplete
That ain't no way to treat the broken hearted
Come on and finish me

Baby, come on
Come on baby, you said, yeah
Baby, come on
Baby, baby, baby

Yeah
Come on baby, please
Oh baby, come on
Come on baby, finish what you started
That ain't no way to treat the broken hearted
Come on baby, finish what you started uh give me
That ain't no way to treat the broken hearted

Baby, come on
Each step baby, one by one
Baby, come on
Yeah come on
Baby, come on, I got the tools I'll satisfy
Come on baby
Baby come on
Oh oh oh
Yeah, baby come on
Baby come on
Baby come on
So come on baby (baby come on)
So come on baby (baby come on) yeah
Come on baby (baby come on)

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Van Halen

Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. Its 1978 debut album, Van Halen—featuring guitarist Eddie Van Halen, vocalist David Lee Roth, drummer Alex Van Halen, and bassist Michael Anthony—is widely considered to be among the most "original" and "revolutionary" albums to "change rock and roll." more »

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