LP (Laura Pergolizzi) tends to bleed out in her songs, and in "Lost On You," she gets a lot off her chest (which is tattooed with a huge ship at sea). She wrote the song when she slowly started to realize her girlfriend wasn't going to be her lifelong partner. "I felt like my lover was drifting away – slowly leaving the building – and there was nothing that I could do," she said in a Songfacts interview. "It's a breakup song, but it happened almost a year before we broke up, and it was kind of like, 'Hey, do you see what's happening? Is it lost on you that this is going to die?' And then it did."
Born in Long Island, New York, LP released independent albums in 2001 and 2004, but they didn't find an audience. She wrote hundreds of songs, and started to find takers a few years later, earning co-writes on hits for the likes of Rihanna ("Cheers (Drink To That)" and Rita Ora ("Shine Ya Light"). Warner Records signed her in 2011, but by the time her album was completed in 2014, there had been a lot of turnover at the label, and many of her supporters were gone. Released with little fanfare, the album tanked. LP signed to Vagrant Records and used the experience to emotionally power "Lost On You," released in 2015. The full album, also titled Lost On You, appeared a year later.
According to LP, this song gets misinterpreted a lot, but she's OK with it. "People would make it that it was romantic, like, I'm lost on you," she told Songfacts. "Like it's about being lost being in love with you, and that's not really what 'Lost On You' is about. That's the beauty of songs."
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