Lost Like This – Oingo Boingo | Good For Your Soul Unreleased 1983

Lost Like This – How can you be so colourful yet so darkly poetic? Amazing lost track from the band's best songwriting period, woven with lyrical hooks – lost in a haunted place, or lost in your own head? The guitar, keyboard and vocal tones are just surreal, great bassline, a really unique track.

It was resurrected years later for their final album, but in a more conventional arrangement and altered verses which change the song's payoff. This is the punky original version.

A shame it didn’t make it to Good For Your Soul as it slips right into the second half the record, but great this rare recording exists.

[OingoBoingoTapes]

I'm standing all alone out in the pouring rain
I better slow it down, I'm freezing in my veins
But I'm getting used to it

This place is not like anything I've seen before
The buildings move around, the houses have no doors
Strange that I should [end up here]

Oh I don't believe in ghosts or apparitions
Don't believe what I can't see
Living in a world of fallen angels
Something's watching over me

I've never been lost like this
I've never been lost like this
But I wouldn't be happy anywhere else
Nobody to tell us what to do
All by ourselves

I've never been lost like this
But I guess I'm happy, anyway

Don't know how I got here and I don't know why I stay
The poets all around are laughing in their graves
Must be something that I said
They think they're clever just because they're dead

Oh I don't believe in ghosts or apparitions
Don't believe what I can't see
Living in a world of fallen angels
Something's watching over me

I've never been lost like this
I've never been lost like this
But I wouldn't be happy anywhere else
Nobody to tell us what to do
All by ourselves

I've never been lost like this
But I guess I'm happy...

[realbrownsand]

the bad audio quality peaking whenever danny goes is somehow really haunting and fits the nature of this song to me

[Wanderlusteance]

I'm begging...I need every oingo boingo song in existence idc how shitty the quality is 😭 bro this is like a drug

[randyj]

This is Oingo Boingo - this is purely their "sound" - it's got so many of the things you want in a song of theirs. Wonderful. This absolutely should have been on the album. Why haven't they released EXTENDED versions of CDs with bonus cuts. What a shame - it's not too late!

[bustedkeaton]

I always liked this track on their last album, but this version is SO FUN!

[snowghoul]

i love boingo but the fact there's never been something like devo hardcore is so soul crushing.

[marcozirino]

I just love the complexity and tension of these chords

[yourfairyking]

This could've made for an excellent album closer. It's got a similar feeling to Islands, which should've been NTF's closer too, but that's besides the point.

[mahatmarandy]

Wow! I've got like 4CDs of demos and lost songs and outtakes and what have you, and I never heard this one before. I had no idea it was so old, I only knew it from their last studio album.

[SinuousGrace]

Wow, just found this. I bought Boingo when it came out, decades ago. Lost Like This was one of my favorite songs of all time. Hearing this wacky demo version is like stepping back in time and I LOVE it!

[funkynothingness]

PLEASE I NEED MORE OF THIS SHIT🙏🙏🙏 I want to fill the void in my pitiful and meaningless existance

[iteeveee]

Man it pains me that no live recordings have surfaced for this proto version along with Waiting For You and Kiss My Ass considering they were actually played live.

[NodiumAmoko]

Better than the original Boingo's Version

[Hornet-bzxg]

trash band I hate them
















































































































































I love them

[dotcomgamingd]

no matter which version I listen to, I can't decipher what the lyrics are supposed to mean