I 'm Lost Without You - wikipedia I 'm Lost Without You For other uses, see I 'm Lost Without You ( disambiguation ). `` I 'm Lost Without You '' Song by Blink - 182 from the album Blink - 182 Recorded January -- October 2003 The Rubin 's House, Signature Sound, Rolling Thunder ( San Diego, California ) Conway Recording Studios ( Hollywood, California ) Length 6 : 22 Label Geffen Songwriter ( s ) Tom DeLonge Mark Hoppus Travis Barker Producer ( s ) Jerry Finn `` I 'm Lost Without You '' is a song by American rock band Blink - 182 from the band 's fifth studio album, Blink - 182 ( 2003 ). The song, written by guitarist Tom DeLonge, bassist Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker, lyrically relates to lost love. The track was worked on for over six months and features an extended outro that contains two dueling drum tracks mixed into each respective stereo channel. Contents 1 Background 2 Music 3 Reception 4 Personnel 5 References 6 Notes 7 External links Background The song was worked on for over six months, with each incarnation becoming bigger in sound and stranger in tone. In the initial draft of the song, what became the chorus was instead the verse and the song lacked a true chorus. There were `` over 50 or so '' tracks incorporated into the recording, and the song employs a recording technique that dates back to the 1960s, in which DeLonge sang into a rotating speaker to produce an `` underwater '' effect. The feedback in the middle of the song was created by tweaking and turning the guitar around `` like an acrobat on drugs. '' Music `` I 'm Lost Without You '' `` I 'm Lost Without You '' mixes an industrial loop with piano, and contains an extended outro featuring two dueling drum tracks. Problems playing this file ? See media help. The song is composed in the key of A major and is set in time signature of common time with a tempo of 92 beats per minute. DeLonge 's vocal range spans from E to D. When sequenced as a part of the album, the song segues directly from the previous track, `` Here 's Your Letter '', which relates to isolation, dislocation, loneliness and miscommunication. The song opens with the combination of an industrial loop with piano, which reminded Barker of the music of Pink Floyd or Failure. The narrative involves a lover pleading to his female companion to stay, and the song centrals around this refrain : `` Are you afraid of being alone ? / ' Cause I am / I 'm lost without you. '' `` Slow, deliberate, lumbering beats '' mix with the guitars, which are tampered with a `` space - age '' feel. The song, which recalls the music of the 1980s, `` undulates and builds round a mid-paced and somewhat wistful feel. '' Journalist Joe Shooman connects the song thematically to `` I Miss You '', in that both are downbeat in tone and relate to lost love. The piano returns for a `` quiet middle - eight '' before the narrative ends, and the song carries on for several more minutes without an extended drum solo that serves as the outro. The dueling drums -- one mixed in the right channel and the other in the left -- was something the band had always discussed, but had never implemented into a song. The first drum track was played to a click track, whereas the other one consisted of Barker `` playing until I could n't stop playing. '' The result is the longest song the band ever recorded, clocking in at 6 : 20. According to DeLonge, `` the only way that you can really appreciate ( the song ) is if you have headphones and you dim the lights in your house and really sat there and listened to it. '' Reception Allmusic singled out `` I 'm Lost Without You '' as one of the `` weirder, atmospheric pieces '' on Blink - 182, one that successfully molds `` adventurous '' songwriting with musical experimentation. The A.V. Club, however, referred to it as a `` syrupy minor - key ballad. '' Personnel Blink - 182 Mark Hoppus -- vocals, bass guitar Tom DeLonge -- vocals, guitar Travis Barker -- drums, percussion, piano Production Jerry Finn -- producer Ryan Hewitt -- mix engineer Brian Gardner -- mastering engineer References Shooman, Joe ( June 24, 2010 ). Blink - 182 : The Bands, The Breakdown & The Return. Independent Music Press. ISBN 978 - 1 - 906191 - 10 - 8. Notes ^ Jump up to : Blink - 182 ( liner notes ). Blink - 182. US : Geffen. 2003. 000133612. Jump up ^ `` Blink - 182 I 'm Lost Without You - Guitar Tab ''. Music Notes. EMI Music Publishing. Retrieved February 24, 2014. ^ Jump up to : Shooman, 2010. p. 124 ^ Jump up to : Corey Moss ( October 14, 2003 ). `` No Album Title, No Preconceptions : The New Blink - 182 ''. MTV News. Retrieved September 22, 2010. ^ Jump up to : Jesse Lord ( November 24, 2003 ). `` Review : Blink - 182 ''. IGN. Retrieved September 22, 2010. Jump up ^ Stephen Thomas Erlewine. `` Review : Blink - 182 ''. Allmusic. Retrieved September 22, 2010. Jump up ^ Stephen Thompson ( November 25, 2003 ). `` Review : Blink - 182 ''. The A.V. Club. Retrieved September 22, 2010. External links `` I 'm Lost Without You '' live in 2013 on YouTube Blink - 182 Mark Hoppus Travis Barker Matt Skiba Scott Raynor Tom DeLonge Studio albums Cheshire Cat Dude Ranch Enema of the State Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Blink - 182 Neighborhoods California Live albums The Mark, Tom and Travis Show ( The Enema Strikes Back ! ) Compilation albums Greatest Hits Icon Demos Buddha EPs They Came to Conquer... Uranus Lemmings / Going Nowhere Dogs Eating Dogs Video albums The Urethra Chronicles The Urethra Chronicles II : Harder Faster Faster Harder Greatest Hits Singles `` M + M 's '' `` Wasting Time '' `` Apple Shampoo '' `` Dammit '' `` Dick Lips '' `` Josie '' `` What 's My Age Again ? '' `` All the Small Things '' `` Adam 's Song '' `` Man Overboard '' `` The Rock Show '' `` First Date '' `` Stay Together for the Kids '' `` I Wo n't Be Home for Christmas '' `` Feeling This '' `` I Miss You '' `` Down '' `` Always '' `` Not Now '' `` Up All Night '' `` After Midnight '' `` Bored to Death '' `` She 's Out of Her Mind '' `` Home Is Such a Lonely Place '' Other songs `` Carousel '' `` Family Reunion '' `` Dumpweed '' `` Stockholm Syndrome '' `` All of This '' `` I 'm Lost Without You '' `` Another Girl, Another Planet '' `` Ghost on the Dance Floor '' `` Heart 's All Gone '' Tours GoodTimes Tour Warped Tour 1996 Warped Tour 1997 Race Around Uranus Tour SnoCore 98 PooPoo PeePee Tour Warped Tour 1999 Loserkids Tour The Mark, Tom and Travis Show Tour Honda Civic Tour 2001 Take Off Your Pants and Jacket Tour Pop Disaster Tour DollaBill Tour Blink - 182 Tour Blink - 182 / No Doubt Summer Tour 2004 Blink - 182 in Concert 10th Annual Honda Civic Tour 20th Anniversary Tour We Are Pirates Tour California Tour Associated acts Box Car Racer Transplants + 44 Angels & Airwaves Alkaline Trio Goldfinger Related articles Awards and nominations Discography List of songs Tribute albums Goliath Management 2008 South Carolina Learjet 60 crash Hoppus on Music Riding in Vans with Boys Jerry Finn John Feldmann Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I%27m_Lost_Without_You&oldid=755052165 '' Categories : Blink - 182 songs 2003 songs Songs written by Mark Hoppus Songs written by Tom DeLonge Songs written by Travis Barker Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 15 December 2016, at 23 : 59. 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Question: blink 182 i'm lost without you lyrics meaning
Answer: a lover pleading to his female companion to stay