♫ Lost In Love ♫

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I last played this one back in 2019 upon request by SoundEagle!  I had all but forgotten it, but then tonight, after dozing in my chair, computer on my lap, I went in search of a song to play … up popped this one!  I know David doesn’t care for it, and Clive likely won’t either, but maybe some of you will!

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

68 thoughts on “♫ Lost In Love ♫”

  3. Jill, Air Supply was played often on the soft rock stations. This is a good song from a good group, but after thirty minutes or so, I felt the need to turn to a hard rock station. Of course, the hard rock stations had a lot of big hair bands playing throughout the 80s, so that did not guarantee better (or unique) listening. The 80s were an interesting decade for music. There were, of course, standouts like Bruce Springsteen, Tina Turner, Bon Jovi, Kenny Loggins, et al, but there was a lot of copycatting, too. Of course, my opinion and $3 will get you a cup of coffee. Keith

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    • I guess I’ve always been more of a soft rock person, or my old favourite, Motown. Hard rock never did much for me but frazzle my nerves! And in the 80s, I had two teenaged children who were into the hard rock stuff, so it frazzled my nerves even more! The thing I love about music is that there’s something for everyone … wouldn’t the world be boring if we all liked the exact same things?

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    • 🤣🤣 If anybody comes up with a song about the debt ceiling, that’s IT! I would stop listening to music altogether! And rg … for the record … you can say whatever you like about my music posts, okay?

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      • I can, but sometimes I choose silence, depending on my mood. I don’t dislike all songs I am silent on — there are just some days nothing comes to me to say, so I don’t say it. Today was going to be one of those days, until I read the post a 2nd time, and noticed you tried to predict Keith’s and Clive’s responses, so I responded to that, not the song.

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