Console me in my darkest hour
Convince me that the truth is always grey
Caress me in your velvet chair
Conceal me from the ghost you cast away

I ain't 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 always hear my cries
I wonder what you've got conspired
I'm sure it dons a consolation prize

I ain't 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
And you throw me down

I ain't 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 about how 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

I bet this is the 2nd single off of DAY AND AGE...it's got an awesome build-up and really takes off at the end....it's got RADIO-HIT all over it.

Great song. I hope it doesn't hit the radio though and get over played.

I think this should have been the first single, but I seem to be in the minority. Great song, I like the transitions

I haven't seen the liner notes to know if the lyrics are there or not but does anyone else think that it's "roamin' Vagabond" and not "Roman Vagabond?"

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i agree with yusufq, roaming makes more sense to me.
i adore this song.

keyboard in it reminds me of read my mind, anyone else getting that vibe?

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hm. i think this is about the character telling a girl he trusts about things that are bothering him a lot and he gives himself up to her trust then she tells everyone and says hes "losing touch". he trusts her is his darkest hours and she goes around telling people things he trusted he to keep between just them. my vision of it ha

This song is so Duran Duran.

i can so see myself playing this on rock band :)

I think it should be roanin' instead of roman.
It came across my mind, for some odd reason, that this song is about an indian man, called 'Losing Touch' who saw his friends come back after gambling in las vegas having lost everything.
Don't ask why, it just made sense at the time.

My own interpretation is that this is more of a break-up song. You go and tell your friends how much of a monster I am and spread rumors amongst your friends.

But I also like mjrzasa's interpretation, and that would better explain "But you made your way back home" in that she spread rumors about how he's losing it but she still came back to him. I kinda like that more than my interp


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One of my favorites of DAY & AGE!

To me, this song is about someone that's in a very dark point in his life. This person feels miserable, deppressive, and is almost venting, clamoring for help and direction from someone else. He is almost asking to this other person to reassure him that the gloomy thing he is feeling are ok to feel. He is lost in his feelings not seeing a way out of them.

I love it! This song exudes desperation.

i think its about the media and shit telling people that the killers arent cool anymore.
i dunno i read it in rolling stone

If you subscribe to the "suicide attempt" theory of Spaceman, then Losing Touch is just that... he's losing touch. Human describes his breakdown and arrival to the "platform of surrender", and Spaceman his attempt and subsequent hospitalization.

One thing extra: the guy is referring to something that always consoles him, and he's talking a LOT like some kind of addict to a drug or other habit. So, my read on it is that Spaceman is about attempted or accidental suicide by overdose and rehabilitation, and therefore Loaing Touch is either about the afformentioned slide into depression, OR an increase in depending on a drug. The chorus smacks of someone essentially refusing advice or caution. Of course, it's a song, so it means whatever was in the writer's head at the time, or nothing...

What I get from the song is that the guy and his girlfriend aren't in love anymore, and that the girl thinks that it's the guy that's been changing. she might be cheating on him and she tries to lie and tell him that "the truth is always grey" and console him and all of that. she thinks that she's better and smarter than him and that he doens't realize, but he does. and she's telling all of her friends that he's losing touch and getting older. and he knows it and doesn't care what she says. he's describing her behaviour as being lost and that she's sold her soul, she's not the same person she used to be. then at the end he starts questioning himself and admits that she might be right and it might actually be his fault, he thinks he is losing touch. it's a sad song! but i love it and i love the killers!

sorry that my reasoning is all out of whack lol

Does anyone else feel that verse and chorus of this song sound more like a dialogue between two people then just one? It seems the first voice seems the depressed and desperate character because of his tone and sarcastic references to optimistic consolance, while the second voice is talking to him (without hurry) and trying to bring him around by talking about his over-the-top pessimism and doomsday attitude, but offering reassurance in how he'll eventually find his way back home.

That's my current take on it, anyway.

Spaceman is about being abducted by aliens. It's really obvious, too. Think about it, SPACEMAN. It's a spaceman...an alien. They ripped him from his bed and had zipping white light beams and the SPACEMAN said everybody LOOK DOWN. As in, 'look down on the earth from this space ship I just abducted you with'.

Anyway, I think "Losing Touch" is in a sarcastic tone. The people who are actually losing touch are the people who have abandoned their faith(you sold your soul/an allegiance dead and gone). These types of themes are all over Day & Age and all over Brandon Flowers' lyrics in general. He talks about people spreading rumors of impending doom, ditching their faith, and actively seeking to bring others down to their level. He sees all of this in people and he's bothered by it, which is why he's currently in his "darkest hour". When somebody tries to fill his head with all the "rumors of impending doom", he sarcastically says, "I ain't in no hurry. You go run and tell your friends I'm Losing Touch". He's mocking them... "I wonder what you've got conspired. I'm sure it dons a consolation prize." He's losing touch with what's going on in society right now, because everybody else is losing touch with all of the values that were more prevalent in past generations.

Then he goes into "Human" and is very direct with his concerns. He's hit rock bottom at that point.

Then he gets abducted by aliens in "Spaceman" and they show him that it's all in our minds...the impending doom and whatnot.

I'm with you gilley.

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.

The next chorus is very telling. Again, he tells her that he ain't in no hurry, she can go running off to her friends and spreading rumors about him - and this time, it's made very clear that it's rumor mongering he's referring to, as when he says "fill your crown with rumors" (the crown perhaps being a reference to the idea that she thinks she's perfect whilst pointing out everything wrong with him) you can hear very loud and indistinct whispers, signifying the whirlwind of gossip she's spreading behind his back.

The whole chorus repeats again, but with one final change at the end:

"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.

My view of this song might be a bit skewed since I myself had just been hugely betrayed the first time I ever heard it so my mind was already running that way when I was coming up with a meaning. It was very similar to the song too - "you go run and tell your friends I'm losing touch" is a line I can relate to more than anything, it cuts unbelievably close to the bone! That's why the killers are so amazing though, they always manage to write songs which remind each person about their own life. Everyone will listen to this album and find a different meaning in each of the songs and that's what makes the Killers such a great band. Songs like this are rare, and bands who make ALL of their songs like that, such as The Killers or U2, are even rarer. Best song on the entire album in my opinion, really hope it's the next single they release!

Brandon Flowers being the lyricist for The Killers, and him being a devout Christian, alot of the Killers songs have religous undertones. In this song for example. The majority of the song, he is talking directly to God sayin that "he" consoles him in his darkest hour, and tell me that you always here my cries. I think that this song is about his internal stuggle to adapt his beliefs to a new understanding of the world. "Convince me that the truth is always grey" is the most profound line in the the song to me because when you ponder and question life from a christian perspective, alot of things dont add up, but when you start making sense of it and still maintain your essential christian values, the sense attained doest go with the traditonal christian view hence, "Go run and tell your friends im loosing touch." Using the word friends to refer to local traditional christain leaders, like pastors and preachers or even friends and family. i have other interpretations for the other lines like "velvet chair" he's refering to royalty, Jahova the king of kings. "impending doom" obviously hell. "the ghost you cast away" Satan. Thats how I see it, let me know if you agree or at least understand where i'm coming from.

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I think its about living in lies and the pain that it causes
"losing touch" means to start been tuth
because the "touch" of most of the people is beeing liar

well..
i'm not explaining my point so well
but let's just say that this song it's about a liar society