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I've Lost You

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Information:
Matthew’s Southern Comfort first recorded this Ken Howard-Alan Blaikley song in 1970 on Decca Records.

Elvis recorded I’ve Lost You on June 4, 1970, at RCA’s Nashville studios. The single release had a nine-week stay on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, peaking at # 32. On the country and Easy-Listening charts I’ve Lost You reached # 57 and # 5, respectively. Sales reportedly exceeded on million copies. Elvis sang I’ve Lost You in his 1970 documentary, Elvis – That’s The Way It Is. That performance was filmed on August 13, 1970, at the International Hotel in Las Vegas.

Lyrics:
 

Lying by your side I watch you sleeping
And in your face the sweetness of a child
Murmuring a dream you won't recapture
Though it will haunt the corners of you mind

I've lost though you're near me
And your body's still is kind
I've lost you on a journey,
But I can't remember where or when

Who can tell when summer turns to autumn
And who can point the moment love grows cold
Softly without pain the joy is over
Though why it's gone we neither of us know

1. I've lost you, yes, I've lost you
I can't reach you anymore
We ought to talk it over now
But reason can't stand in for feeling, oh

1. (repeat)

Six o'clock the baby will be crying
And you will stumble, sleeping to the door
In the chill and solemn grey of morning
We play the parts that we have learned too well

1. 1. 1. 1. 1. (repeat)

Where it was released:

Released for the fist time on single »

Singles:

- I’ve Lost You / The Next Step is Love (RCA 47-9873) July 1970. Standard release »

- I’ve Lost You / The Next Step is Love (RCA 447-0677) August 1971. Gold standard series reissue.

LPs/CDs:

- Elvis - That's the Way It Is (1970) »

- Always on My Mind (1985)

- Worldwide Gold Award Hits, Volume 2 – The Other Sides (1971) »

– Memories of Elvis (1978) »

– That's The Way It Is (1981) »

- Forever, Volume 2 (1992)

- Heart and Soul (1995)

- Walk a Mile in My Shoes – The Essential 70’s Masters (1995)

- Essential Elvis, Volume 4 – A Hundred Years From Now (1996)

- Forever in Love (1997)

- Artist of the Century (1999)

- That’s The Way It Is – Special Edition (2000)

- One Night in Vegas (2000) – FTD »

- Best of Elvis Presley II (2001) – Zounds

- The 50 Greatest Love Songs (2001)

- The Live Greatest Hits (2001)

- The Way It Was (2001) - FTD »

- Elvis 70’s (2001)

- The Nashville Marathon (2002) - FTD »

- Heart and Soul (2003)

- Hitstory (2005)

- The Way It Was (2008) - FTD »

- That's the Way It Is (2008) - FTD »

– Stage Rehearsal (2011) - FTD »

- Hits of the 70s (2012) - FTD »

– That's The Way It Is - 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition (2020) - FTD

Bootleg Releases:

- The King of Las Vegas Live - Hazbin / Wizardo Records (1973)

- The Hillbilly Cat “Live” – Brookville Records (1974)

- That’s the Way It Is – Amiga Records (1980) 

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