♫ Lost In Love ♫

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A week or so ago, I had a request for a song by Air Supply — any song, my choice.  Well, this is my favourite of Air Supply’s repertoire, so this is my choice!

Graham Russell, Air Supply’s guitarist and song writer, says he wrote this song in 15 minutes …

“‘Lost In Love’ is such a simple song. I think about the songs before I start to write them, and I think about where they’re going to go. I’m very aware that when that inspiration comes, it comes very quickly: it’s like a dart, and it doesn’t last a long time, that real initial impulse. So when it comes I know that the thoughts are going to be scattered, and they’re going to come really fast, and I need to get them down quickly, so I need to think about the song first when I know it’s coming. When a song is coming I get a weird feeling, and then I kind of drift somewhere on my own to think about it. But when I actually play the piano or pick the guitar up, it’ll come really quickly. But my songs, too, are very simple. I mean, I’m not into jazz, and I’m not into fusion or anything like that. My songs are really straight ahead, real simple chords, the simpler the better. So a song like ‘Lost In Love’ with four chords, there’s only two parts to it. There’s really no chorus. There’s just a verse and a bridge. So something like that shouldn’t take longer than 15 minutes to write, you know.”

The legendary record man Clive Davis is famous for developing the careers of Whitney Houston, Aerosmith and Alicia Keys, but Air Supply was one of his greatest success stories. “Lost In Love” was a hit in the group’s native Australia in 1979, but Davis released it in America and unleashed Air Supply on an international audience.

Here you go, SoundEagle …

Lost in Love
Air Supply

I realize the best part of love is the thinnest slice
And it don’t count for much
But I’m not letting go
I believe there’s still much to believe in

So lift your eyes if you feel you can
Reach for a star and I’ll show you a plan
I figured it out
What I needed was someone to show me

You know you can’t fool me
I’ve been loving you too long
It started so easy
You want to carry on

Lost in love and I don’t know much
Was I thinking aloud and fell out of touch?
But I’m back on my feet and eager to be what you wanted

So lift your eyes if you feel you can
Reach for a star and I’ll show you a plan
I figured it out
What I needed was someone to show me

You know you can’t fool me
I’ve been loving you too long
It started so easy
You want to carry on

Lost in love and I don’t know much
Was I thinking aloud and fell out of touch?
But I’m back on my feet and eager to be what you wanted

You know you can’t fool me
I’ve been loving you too long
It started so easy
You want to carry on

Lost in love and I don’t know much
Was I thinking aloud and fell out of touch?
But I’m back on my feet and eager to be what you wanted

Now I’m lost, lost in love, lost in love, lost in love
Now I’m lost, lost in love, lost in love, lost in love
Lost in love, lost in love, lost in love
Lost in love, lost in love, lost in love

Songwriters: Timothy Hawes / Pete Kirtley / Kimberley Gail Marsh
Lost in Love lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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15 thoughts on “♫ Lost In Love ♫”

    • Hi Jill and David,

      On the 16th of January, I commented as follows:

      I concur with Donnalee!

      Jill, could the next Australian band that you will feature be “Air Supply”?

      Here we are, almost two months later, being treated with a song from the Aussie band! Thank you!

      I too have an instrumental piece called “Lost in Love” in my post entitled “🦅 SoundEagle in SoundCloud: Art, Music and Compositions about New Sensations, Love, Life, Country, Nature, Dreaming, Meditation and Spirituality 🏞🎼🎶”, which is published at http://soundeagle.wordpress.com/2013/03/10/soundeagle-in-soundcloud-art-music-and-compositions-about-new-sensations-love-life-country-nature-dreaming-meditation-and-spirituality/

      The said post contains a small fraction of my musical compositions. These compositions are by no means representative of my musical oeuvres, but they do serve some important purposes, as explicated quite substantially in the post. Please feel free to analyse and/or critique those compositions as well as my writing to your heart’s content at the comment section of the said post.

      Please note that one of the pieces there called “Country River” is a musical quiz. No one has been able to fully answer the quiz yet. Perhaps you can! Here are the clues: the piece contains two folk tunes and one national anthem. See if you can identify them.

      May you enjoy the music to your heart’s content!

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      • Now, notice that it wasn’t two months, but about two weeks before I met your request for a song by Air Supply!

        I did listen to your song by the same title and was quite impressed. I really liked the music … peaceful and calm, beautiful. Do you compose these yourself? I will definitely be back to listen to some of the rest! Thanks!

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