Let's Get Lost

## **Let's Get Lost***Emotion*

**Let's Get Lost** is the ninth track on Carly Rae Jepsen's third studio album, Emotion (2015). It was released on June 24th 2015, through School Boy and Interscope Records.

## **Lyrics**

**Verse 1**

I was never one to want to

Put my trust in someone else completely

And I was always one to want to up and run

When someone said they needed me

**Pre-Chorus**

But you... *(You, you~)*

You could be the one

Yeah, you could be the one

**Chorus**

Baby, let's go get lost

I like that you're driving slow

Keeping my fingers crossed

That maybe you'll take the long way home

Let's get lost

I don't wanna let you go

Keeping my fingers crossed

That maybe you'll take the long way home

**Post-Chorus**

*(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh)*

Baby, let's take the long way home

**Verse 2**

I was always shy and careful

I was sure that you would never look at me

Never wanted to discourage

Everything your eyes encouraged silently

**Pre-Chorus**

But you... *(You, you~)*

You could be the one

Yeah, you could be the one

**Chorus**

Baby, let's go get lost

I like that you're driving slow

Keeping my fingers crossed

That maybe you'll take the long way home

Let's get lost

I don't wanna let you go

Keeping my fingers crossed

That maybe you'll take the long way home

**Post-Chorus**

*(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh)*

Baby, let's take the long way home

*(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh)*

Baby, let's take the long way home

**Bridge**

Let's get lost *(let's get lost)*

You wanna get lost? *(You wanna get lost?)*

Let's get lost *(let's get lost)*

I wanna get lost

**Chorus**

Oh, baby, let's go get lost

I like that you're driving slow

Keeping my fingers crossed

That maybe you'll take the long way home

Let's get lost

I don't wanna let you go

Keeping my fingers crossed

That maybe you'll take the long way home

**Outro**

*(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh)*

Baby, let's take the long way home

*(Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh)*

Baby, let's take the long way home

## **Song credits**

#### **Writing and production**

* **Written by:** Carly Rae Jepsen • CJ Baran • Ben Romans
* **Produced by:** CJ Baran • Ben Romans Woolf & The Wondershow Productions

#### **Instrumentation**

* **Instrumentation:** CJ Baran • Ben Romans

#### **Additional credits**

* **Programming:** CJ Baran • Ben Romans
* **Mixing:** Robert Orton
* **Mastering:** Gene Grimaldi

#### **Studio info**

* **Mixed at:** Hot Rocks Studios (Santa Monica, CA)
* **Mastered at:** Oasis Mastering (Burbank, CA)

#### **Publishing info**

* **Published by:** Universal Music Corp • Jepsen Music Publishing (ASCAP) • Clandestine Songs (ASCAP) • These Are Songs of Pulse (ASCAP) • Wondershow Shows • Kobalt Music • All rights on behalf of Clandestine Songs administered by These Are Songs of Pulse • MXM Administered by Kobalt Music Songs Publishing (ASCAP)

## **Writing and development**

Let's Get Lost was the last song of the album to be recorded, according to Jepsen. She states the song and the album were due at the same time, explaining how she had only realised the song 'still had something to it' a day before the deadline.

Jepsen credited Dev Hynes and Ariel Rechtshaid with the song's inclusion on the album. She states the group of them had spent the night in New York going through all the songs she had written during the development of Emotion; 'these were songs on the album, songs I was thinking about and not sure about, and they gave their votes.' Jepsen states Let's Get Lost was a song she had been 'really gunning for' but 'nobody was getting it,' until Hynes and Rechtshaid heard it. She explained, 'they were the first ones who I’d shown it to and they were like, 'What do you mean this was 'a maybe'?'

After spending the night with Hynes and Rechtshaid, Jepsen called co-writers and producers of the track, CJ Baran and Ben Romans, to continue working on the song, which at the time was still lacking harmonies and needing reworked production. Jepsen visited them at their house and spent the night on the song, convincing her label to stall for time in regards to the album deadline. She explained how an unknown song was cut from the album to fit Let's Get Lost in its place, but stated she was 'really glad' with the outcome - 'it feels like it would have been missing otherwise.'

## **References**

1. ↑ *Emotion* (album booklet). Carly Rae Jepsen. 604 Records, School Boy Records and Interscope Records. 2015.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Gevinson, Tavi "The Next Adventure: An Interview With Carly Rae Jepsen" Rookie Mag. October 16th, 2015. Retrieved May 18th, 2021.