With nearly each album, however, their lineup has continually shifted -- with front man Dr. Frank (real name Frank Portman) now remaining as the only original member of the group. MTX are also best known for introducing just about every live song with the line, "This is a song about a girl...".
Their most recent album, "Yesterday Rules", was released in 2004.
When I Lost You
The Mr. T Experience Lyrics
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I lost my last one when I lost you
I've got nothing left that I care for
Now there's no one there to be there for
I lost all that stuff when I lost you
When I lost you, my world was smashed up
When I lost you, my life was slashed up
I'm calling to a heart that there's no room in
And now I'm feeling barely human
I lost everything when I lost you
And now everything is so much to lose and not enough to hang on to
And what I do and what I think of you is never what I want to
And now the advice squad is saying that it's all for the best
How there'll be better ones to fall for, how I'm so lucky now to be free
But every word of wisdom is dumb
Freedom, freedom: you're just gonna be dumb
Because it doesn't matter to me
When I lost you, I started drifting
When I lost you, was only fifteen days ago
But still you know that I've been trying for so long
To make it through this fog that I've been lost in
That we had our love holocaust in
I lost everything when I lost you
The lyrics to The Mr. T Experience's song "When I Lost You" convey a sense of loss and despair, as the singer struggles to come to terms with the end of a relationship. Throughout the song, we see a series of losses: the loss of belief or suspension of disbelief, the loss of caring for anything at all, and the loss of everything when the relationship ended.
The chorus echoes these feelings of loss, describing the world as "smashed up" and the singer's life as "slashed up." The loss of the relationship is described as something that has left the singer feeling barely human, adrift and lost.
Despite the well-meaning advice of friends and strangers alike, the singer cannot seem to find comfort in the idea that he has "freedom" now that the relationship is over. Instead, he finds that everything he encounters is "so much to lose and not enough to hang on to," and that he remains consumed by thoughts of the person he has lost.
Line by Line Meaning
I've got nothing left to believe in or suspend my disbelief in even
I'm completely disillusioned and have lost all faith and trust in anything.
I lost my last one when I lost you
I lost my last glimmer of hope when I lost you.
I've got nothing left that I care for
I don't have anything left that matters to me.
Now there's no one there to be there for
There's no one I can depend on anymore.
I lost all that stuff when I lost you
I lost everything important to me when I lost you.
When I lost you, my world was smashed up
Losing you destroyed my entire world and shattered everything I knew.
When I lost you, my life was slashed up
My life was torn apart and ruined when I lost you.
When I lost you I lost much more than you will ever know
Losing you caused me immense pain and suffering that you can never truly understand.
I'm calling to a heart that there's no room in
I'm desperately reaching out to a heart that no longer has any space for me.
And now I'm feeling barely human
The pain of losing you has made me feel like I'm barely a person anymore.
I lost everything when I lost you
I lost everything that mattered to me when I lost you.
And now everything is so much to lose and not enough to hang on to
Everything in my life feels overwhelming and precarious, and there's nothing solid for me to hold onto.
And what I do and what I think of you is never what I want to
No matter how hard I try, I can't control my thoughts and actions regarding you, and they never align with what I truly want.
And now the advice squad is saying that it's all for the best
People are telling me that losing you was ultimately a good thing and that I'll find someone better, but I don't believe them.
How there'll be better ones to fall for, how I'm so lucky now to be free
People are trying to console me by saying there are other people out there to love and that I'm lucky to be free from a bad relationship, but it's not helping me feel any better.
But every word of wisdom is dumb
I don't want to hear anyone's advice or wisdom because it all sounds meaningless to me.
Freedom, freedom: you're just gonna be dumb
Being free from the pain of losing you doesn't feel like freedom at all, it just feels empty and pointless.
Because it doesn't matter to me
Nothing matters to me anymore because losing you has left me completely broken.
When I lost you, I started drifting
Losing you caused me to become adrift and lost in life.
When I lost you, was only fifteen days ago
It's only been a short time since I lost you, but it feels like an eternity.
But still you know that I've been trying for so long
I've been trying to move on and deal with losing you, but it's been a difficult and painful process.
To make it through this fog that I've been lost in
I've been struggling to find my way through the confusion and pain of losing you.
That we had our love holocaust in
The end of our relationship was like a devastating catastrophe and left me feeling emotionally destroyed.
I lost everything when I lost you
I lost everything that was important to me when I lost you.
Contributed by Annabelle V. Suggest a correction in the comments below.