I think I lost it

Let me know if you’ve come across it…

When I first started playing guitar I learned the songs off ‘Car Wheels on a Gravel Road’ by Lucinda Williams, It was my first lesson into the deep dive of studying song craft from a master poet and songwriter. What appears to be simple and accessible on the surface is just the beginning of getting to know an artist like Lucinda. She has an uncanny way of getting in your head and starting a conversation and before you know it, you are sure she is your friend.

“I Lost it” speaks to me because I feel like I’m always searching for something. Maybe it’s a memory, maybe it’s my keys, maybe it’s my voice. This song takes me to finding grace over and over again - I once was lost but now I’m found - I’ve heard this song was inspired by a bumper sticker that asks if you’ve found Jesus, and her response was ‘Have I lost him?’

As much as i love the hook of the song and resonate with the catchy chorus, what I dig even more is the the second verse - “I just wanna live the life I please, I don’t want no enemies, I don’t want nothing if I have to fake it” To me she is singing about what it means to be real in the world — free of facades, free of people pleasing, and figuring out how to live on a path of finding amazing grace, which is the path of an artist on her own terms.

Thanks, Lu, for writing this wonderful song. It has enhanced my life. Here’s a version with my husband and artist Jason Quicksall, who loses a lot of stuff around the house, so I sing this to him on the regular.