Songfacts®:

• In this song, Rod Stewart plays the part of a guy who's been separated from the woman he loves (probably because he's a cad) and now wants her back. His play? He's finally found what he's looking for, and it's her. Instead of the generic "I love you," he finds a better way to express himself: "I'm lost in you."
  
  Stewart often writes songs in character with bits of his real life as guardrails. The guy in the song has a son with this lady, just as Stewart had a son with his first wife, Alana Stewart. And Rod has admitted that he wasn't always the best boyfriend, with a wandering eye and a dedication to life on the road.
• Stewart wrote this song with Andy Taylor of Duran Duran, who also played guitar on the track. According to Stewart, he and the band were working in the studio, getting nowhere, when Stewart left for soccer practice. He told Taylor to experiment while he was gone, and when Rod came back at 11 p.m., Taylor had come up with the track.
  
  "I do not advise any up-and-coming groups to adopt this method of songwriting," Stewart wrote in his Storyteller liner notes.
• "Lost In You" was the first single from Stewart's 1988 album Out Of Order. He was more than 20 years into his career at this point but was still selling lots of albums - 2 million for Out Of Order just in America. He was able to retain his core fanbase while constantly finding a new audience.
• Videos with strippers are typically the domain of rock bands like Mötley Crüe, but this one takes place in a strip club. Directed by Jonathan Kaplan, it stars Stewart as the bartender in the club who falls for the exotic dancer. The video vixen is Denise Greer, who also shows up in the videos for "My Heart Can't Tell You No" and "Crazy About Her."
• Stewart and Andy Taylor produced the song, and the rest of the album, with Bernard Edwards, the bass player in Chic. Taylor and Edwards were part of the group The Power Station, which had a hit in 1985 with "Some Like It Hot."