Whereas Liam probably already has the track listing for our new album Blueprint memorized.

I don’t.

So every day when I’m going to record one of these episodes, I got to load up the album in my app of choice or my web browser of choice, Safari, and see what the next track is.

And today’s track is Lost Song.

I have recorded this episode in my head many times already, even at the earliest inceptions of our song Lost Song, knowing that I would one day make a podcast episode about it.

This is that day.

It’s one of those surreal moments when a thing I had envisioned and knew would happen is now happening.

So here we go.

I’m going to tell you all about our song Lost Song, and then I’m going to play you Lost Song.

So here we go.

One note, it is not about the TV show Lost.

Your Daily Lex.

If you want to hear a Liam and Lex song that makes reference to the TV show Lost, it also makes reference to the show Severance and to the show The Good Place, you got to listen to our song Gotta Binge, which is from one of our albums, specifically from our album I Wrote This Album Tomorrow, which I just had to look up because I didn’t remember that either.

But anyway, Lost Song.

So this requires some history.

On our first album, Hunger Attack, we wrote a song called Boo Boo Bot.

Here was the impetus, the origin story.

I wanted to write a song about a robot for Liam.

And Liam and his siblings had both loved this, had all three loved this book by B.J.

Novak from The Office.

And that book was called The Book With No Pictures, I think.

And at one point in that book, B.J.

Novak uses the term Boo Boo Butt, which many in my family thought was funny.

Ani, who hates when anybody makes jokes about butts or any bathroom-related word, did not like it, but everybody else thought Boo Boo Butt was funny.

So we named our robot Boo Boo Bot because we thought that was funny.

It reminded us of Boo Boo Butt.

For this album, we wanted a new Boo Boo Bot song.

We like to have some through lines in our albums.

The first song was about how great Boo Boo Bot was and all the things he could do.

He even wrote the song according to the song, which is not true because I wrote the song.

But this time we wanted to make a song called Boo Boo Bot 2.0, or at least I did.

And I wrote the song Boo Boo Bot 2.0.

And it was in our lyrics.

Liam saw it.

We have a shared folder of notes in iCloud, and so he could see the lyrics when I wrote them.

He hadn’t yet written the music for it, but he knew the song was there.

And then actually months went by because, you know, he wrote other songs and did other things with his life.

Then when he wanted to write Boo Boo Bot 2.0, he couldn’t find it.

And I couldn’t find it.

We lost the song.

We were sad because we had written it.

It was good.

But then I remembered that I had put it into some insane website.

There was a couple weeks when some website that could like generate songs based on lyrics was making the rounds.

And so I put in the Boo Boo Bot 2.0 lyrics.

And I had to remember what that website was and find it.

And when I found it, I could get my old lyrics out of it, which I did.

So we lost the song, and then we found it.

And I said to Liam, hey, that should be a song.

We lost the song, and then we found it.

And he’s like, why would that be a song?

I’m like, it shouldn’t be.

I’m kidding.

And he’s like, what would it even rhyme with?

And I said, we’re the police, and we have your house surrounded.

And he said, okay, that should be on the album.

And I said, okay, here are the lyrics.

And I put it into our note right in front of him.

We lost the song, and then we found it.

We’re the police, and we have your house surrounded, times 20.

Like, repeat 20 times.

And Liam said, okay, I’m going to record that song.

I’m like, do not record that song.

That is stupid.

He’s like, no, I think it’s a good song.

I’m like, it’s not a good song.

Nothing more came of it for a while.

I use notes all day.

Notes helps power my business.

I like that they sink instantly and that they’re very low friction.

And so whenever I’m on a call with a client, I open up a new note with that client’s name and the date and other info, and I take my notes there.

And my organization would not delight everybody because I rely on search the same way I don’t bother organizing most of my email anymore.

I can just search and find this stuff instantly.

So as long as I’ve got the right words in there, I know I’ll find them.

One day I needed to take notes on a call.

No, it wasn’t even a call.

I just had notes for myself.

Maybe it was probably coming from a call, but I knew I had to do a couple things.

I had to nudge some people.

I had to nudge a prospect named June.

I had to reach out to a talent agent named Ben.

I had to nudge a business whose acronym is ERM, and I put these notes in my note.

Nudge June, nudge Ben, nudge ERM.

And then Liam added a note to that note because I’d accidentally put it in the lost song note.

And he said in his response, he was treating it like a chat app.

He’s like, Daddy, can you move this?

And I said, no, that’s part of the lyrics.

And then he said, okay, fine, that’s going to be part of the lyrics.

I’m like, okay, now let’s repeat.

We lost a song, but then we found it.

This is the police.

We have your house surrounded 20 times.

Nudge June, nudge Ben, nudge ERM.

And then repeat that original lyric 15 more times.

He’s like, okay, that’s what the song’s going to be.

I’m like, that’s really stupid.

Don’t do that.

And eventually we did write the song.

The only other two things that happened were at one point, I don’t remember which one of us said it to the other, quite honestly.

One of us said to the other, I don’t hate you right now, but I love you a little bit less.

And Liam said, that should go on lost song.

And so he wrote it in the note.

And then I don’t even know the context of how somebody said to the other, will you still die of hypothermia?

And he said, that should go in the song.

I’m like, well, no, to rhyme, it should be, will you still die of hypothermia?

And then he did record the song.

He wrote an insane song, which you’ll hear in a moment.

And he asked me if I would do a rap.

I recorded the rap in one take as a freestyle rap, which will not shock you when you hear it.

Anyway, the song is insane.

And you might get annoyed in the beginning because we do say that opening phrase.

We lost a song, but then we found it.

We say it a lot of times, but the song, surprisingly enough, goes places.

I wouldn’t say it’s an amazing song, but it’s not a bad song.

I kind of like it.

Here it is, lost song from the new album, Blueprint by Liam and Lex, available everywhere.

We lost a song, but then we found it.

We’re the police, we have your house surrounded.

We lost a song, but then we found it.

We’re the police, we have your house surrounded.

We lost a song, but then we found it.

We’re the police, we have your house surrounded.

We lost a song, but then we found it.

We’re the police, we have your house surrounded.

We lost a song, but then we found it.

We’re the police, we have your house surrounded.

We lost a song, but then we found it.

We’re the police, we have your house surrounded.

We lost a song, but then we found it.

We’re the police, guess what?

You’re surrounded.

We lost a song, but then we found it.

We’re the police, we have your house surrounded.

We lost a song, but then we found it.

We’re the police, we have your house surrounded.

We lost a song, but then we found it.

We’re the police, and we have your house surrounded.

We lost a song, but then we found it.

Oh yeah.

I know I’m thinking right now, but I love you a little bit.

Nudge June, nudge Ben, nudge ERM.

We lost a song, but then we found it.

The fact that we recorded this leaves me astounded.

We did lose a song, and we did really find it.

But we also recorded this one.

I hope you don’t mind it.

This song frankly makes just no sense.

It’s nonsense and nonsensical, as you can see friends.

But Liam wants to rap me, rap his king.

I crowned it.

By the way, we’re the police, and we have your house surrounded.

Will you die of hyponemia?

Lex.