Lost in You
Lying wide awake under strange skies
Wanting to call you but it is late at night
And you’re far away but you are always on my mind
I feel like I’m on fire, nothing I can do
I’m troubled with doubt, though I know it is not true
And it’s times like these when I am dying to speak to you
Dying to get through
I’m dying to speak to you
Dying to get through
I’m dying to speak to you
Staring at the wall I sink inside
I think about it all, I get caught up in my life
I can’t think straight because it’s tearing up mind
I feel like I’m on fire, nothing I can do
I’m troubled with doubt, though I know it is not true
And it’s times like these when I am dying to speak to you
Dying to get through
I’m dying to speak to you
Dying to get through
I’m dying to speak to you
The more that I think how I need you
The more that I think the more it seems true
And now it means more than I ever meant it to (Ever meant it to)
Lying wide awake under strange skies
Wanting to call you but it is late at night
And you’re far away but you are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
You are always on my mind
Song Notes
“Lost in You” was written the night before the album was meant to be finished, Ash needed another song and the pressure was on Tim. Speaking in 1996, Tim said of the track:
It was very emotional and I was losing my mind towards the end of it (the recording of 1977). The feelings in “Lost in You” are pretty scary.
Tim speaking of how quickly the track came together in 2008:
The fact was that we didn’t have enough songs. It felt like there was something missing from the album. We had 3 pop punk songs left, 2 of them didn’t seem strong enough, they went on to be B-sides (“T-Rex” and “Everywhere is All Around”, and one which we never finished (It was nicknamed “Diamond Rick”, we’ve since lost the master tape of it).
Owen told me we needed another song, so I just went and wrote it. I’d been listening to Frank Sinatra and was figuring out the chords to “Strangers in the Night” a few days earlier. So I came back to the first 2 chords of that song and wrote a whole new song from that starting point. I’d been impressed by that old style of song arrangement where there is no real chorus. The verse isn’t repetitive and develops slowly, the melody is like a journey. Almost all our songs have a repetitive verse and chorus pop structure, so I wanted to see if I could write in this different way.
We didn’t quite record it all in one day. We did the majority of it on that last day in Rockfield with the clock ticking. It was our last chance to record the drums, so it was down to the wire. But I remember finishing the guitar overdubs and the solo in London, I can’t even remember the name of the studio. I also wrote the lyrics in London, inspired by missing my girlfriend at the time, we were in a long distance relationship and I’d hardly seen her while we’d been recording. So I did the vocal in London too. “Lost In You” turned out to be exactly what we needed to balance the album out and complete it.
Rick McMurray during the Tim Burgess Twitter listening party for 1977 in April 2020:
It’s the final night at Rockfield Studio and we need one more song and it needs to be a ballad. Tim runs off to his room with an acoustic guitar and we wait, dunno how long it took but when he comes back he’s got this gem.
We got to work and it’s in the bag by the time the van comes in the morning to pick up our gear. It’s been an intense six week session but the album is done in the nick of time.
I think you can hear on this song just how much we’ve put into the record. It’s the big exhale after we’ve given it more than we thought we could.
There were conversations with the record company during the summer about putting this out as the final single in the Autumn but we kinda dug our heels in, thinking that we’d already put out enough from the album. Sometimes I wonder if we should have gone for it…