Long Lost (song)

## "Long Lost"

*This is an article about the song, for the album see: Long Lost*

**"Long Lost"** is a song by Leigh Green and Hauser Godwin about being connected with nature. It is on Green's album *A Natural Feeling.*

In the song, the vocalist explains that they are not lonely, but long lost. It uses nature imagery in the lyrics "leave me where the light pours down through the trees like rain" and "leave me where the moonbeams carve through the leaves like blades" to describe the singer's connection with the natural world and how they feel in it. They explain that "for a while I was held by the myth of the Lost Highway, in the spell of the night and the lights of the Great White Way" as though cities and human made structures called to them, but now they wish to be sent to the mountains, to run through the forest, and dance in the fields, because that is where they belong in the world.

## Background and influences

Green is pictured on the single cover art. Various details about Green's life illuminate what this song is likely about. She chases stardom by running away to Los Angeles, and struggles with drug addiction during her recording of *Wildflower* under the stage name "Fleur." She is associated with nature imagery, and seems to find comfort in the natural world after her pursuit of fame.

## Music Video

"Long Lost" is performed by Leigh Green and Hauser Godwin in the music video, where they play guitar in a forest setting by a campfire.

## Annotated lyrics

Leave me where the light pours down through the trees like rain

Let it wash over me like a flood let it ease my pain. Let it drown me

When I came I was held by the myth of the Lost Highway

In the spell of the night and the lights of the Great White Way

I ain't lonely. Are you?

Send me to the mountains, let me go free forever

I'll be running through the forest

dancing in the fields like this:

(Long lost)

Leave me where the moonbeams carve through the leaves like blades

Lay me in the tall grown grass in a shallow grave. Let it have me

I've got a place in the world and I found put where:

out in the night all alone in the Way Out There

I ain't lonely, I'm...

Long lost. Say goodbye. Long lost. Out of my mind

## Potential lyrical references

Frequently, Lord Huron's songs explore similar themes, sometimes they have stories that are covered by more than one song. These lyrical connections are merely for reference:

1. ↑ The Great White Way is another name for Broadway, and here is likely a metaphor for Green's desire for stardom.
2. ↑ Way Out There - "Follow me way out there"

## Sources

1. ↑ Vide Noir press release
2. ↑ Discogs
3. ↑ *Long Lost* vinyl cover details

"The Moon Doesn't Mind" (Roy Casey)
"**Mine Forever**"
"(One Hellava Performer)" (Tubbs Tarbell)
"Love Me Like You Used To"
"Meet Me in the City"
"(Sing for Us Tonight)"(Tubbs Tarbell)

"****Long Lost****" (Leigh Green and Hauser Godwin)
"Twenty Long Years"
"Drops in the Lake" (*Drops in the Lake (film)*)
"Where Did the Time Go"
"**Not Dead Yet**" (The Phantom Riders)
"(Deep Down Inside Ya)"(Tubbs Tarbell)

"I Lied"(with Allison Ponthier) (Donnie and Midge)
"At Sea"(*L’Île Cosmique*)
"What Do It Mean"(Quentin King)
"Time's Blur"
**Bonus tracks:**
"Your Other Life" and "Ton Autre Vie"