blink 182 i'm lost without you lyrics meaning
I'm Lost Without You 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.[3] The song opens with the combination of an industrial loop with piano, which reminded Barker of the music of Pink Floyd or Failure.[1] 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."[4] "Slow, deliberate, lumbering beats" mix with the guitars, which are tampered with a "space-age" feel.[5] The song, which recalls the music of the 1980s, "undulates and builds round a mid-paced and somewhat wistful feel."[3] Journalist Joe Shooman connects the song thematically to "I Miss You", in that both are downbeat in tone and relate to lost love.[3] The piano returns for a "quiet middle-eight" before the narrative ends,[3] and the song carries on for several more minutes without an extended drum solo that serves as the outro.[4] 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.[5][1] The first drum track was played to a click track, whereas the other one consisted of Barker "playing until I couldn't stop playing."[1] The result is the longest song the band ever recorded, clocking in at 6:20.[3]