He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
Console me in my darkest hour
Could this be that the truth is always gray
Caress me in your velvet chair
Conceal me from the ghost you cast away
I'm in no hurry, you go run
And tell your friends I'm losing touch
Fill their heads with rumors of impending doom
It must be true
Console me in my darkest hour
And tell me that you'll always hear my cries
I wonder what you got conspired
I'm sure it was the consolation prize
I'm in no hurry, you go run
And tell your friends I'm losing touch
Fill the night with stories, the legend grows
Of how you got lost
But you made your way back home
You sold your soul, like a Roman vagabond yeah
I heard you found a wishing well
In the city
Console me in my darkest hour (in my darkest hour)
And you throw me down
I'm in no hurry, you go run
And tell your friends I'm losing touch
Fill your crown with rumors
Impending doom, it must be true
But you made your way back home
You sold your soul, like a Roman vagabond
And all that now you got lost, but you made your way back home
You went and sold your soul, an allegiance dead and gone
I'm losing touch
Could this be that the truth is always gray
Caress me in your velvet chair
Conceal me from the ghost you cast away
I'm in no hurry, you go run
And tell your friends I'm losing touch
Fill their heads with rumors of impending doom
It must be true
Console me in my darkest hour
And tell me that you'll always hear my cries
I wonder what you got conspired
I'm sure it was the consolation prize
I'm in no hurry, you go run
And tell your friends I'm losing touch
Fill the night with stories, the legend grows
Of how you got lost
But you made your way back home
You sold your soul, like a Roman vagabond yeah
I heard you found a wishing well
In the city
Console me in my darkest hour (in my darkest hour)
And you throw me down
I'm in no hurry, you go run
And tell your friends I'm losing touch
Fill your crown with rumors
Impending doom, it must be true
But you made your way back home
You sold your soul, like a Roman vagabond
And all that now you got lost, but you made your way back home
You went and sold your soul, an allegiance dead and gone
I'm losing touch
Lyrics submitted by melonhead57, edited by Bfraser2002
Losing Touch Lyrics as written by Dave Brent Keuning Brandon Flowers
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To me, this song is clearly about being betrayed by someone you trusted, in this case probably a close friend or a girlfriend. It's like, in the first verse she's "consoling him" - he's opening up to her about some personal issue he has and she's telling him not to worry about it. Then in the chorus, he clearly knows full well that she's two faced - she acts understanding and caring to his face, then she goes running off to tell her friends that he's losing touch - which either means losing his mind, or losing touch with her or with his friends - and "filling their heads with rumors of impending doom", which I think is either that he's about to completely lose it or else that they're going to break up.
In the second verse, it's a similar story. She's telling him that she "always hears his cries" - that is, that she will always be there and listen when he needs to talk to someone about whatever it is that's upsetting him - but at the same time, he knows she's not keeping his secrets, he knows what she's "got conspired".
Second chorus: Again, she can go and fill the night with her stories, but he doesn't care - stories of "how she got lost, but she made her way back home... Sold her soul, like a roaming vagabond" - this to me sounds very much like she cheated on him, then came crawling back to him without realizing that he actually knew about it all along.
Third verse: "I heard you found a wishing well, in the city... Console me in my darkest hour, then you throw me down..." This is a little more complicated. The wishing well metaphor I don't fully understand, but a wishing well is a well which will supposedly grant spoken wishes. It could be that she's wishing she was with someone else, or that he's wishing all this would come out or stop. But either way, she betrays him again - "you throw me down" as in you bring me to this wishing well and then you throw me down it.
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"Heard about how you got lost, but you made your way back home You sold your soul, an allegiance dead and gone Oh, I'm losing touch"
He finally comes out and says it. She used to be loyal to him but that's over, she's completely betrayed him. At the end of the song he repeats her lie: "I'm losing touch". If you think of this as a rant, him ranting to her, it's like he finally tells her he knows what she's been saying about him.
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