Episode Archive
214 episodes of Lyrics To Go since the first episode, which aired on December 17th, 2020.
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133 - Bad Day
July 10th, 2023 | 1 hr 10 mins
american idol, bad day, bootstrap culture, daniel powter
The guys get deep into the weeds trying to make heads or tales out of Daniel Powter's unfortunate hit song Bad Day. A song that became so loved but seems to be rolling its proverbial eyes at anyone really going through a rough patch in life... the kind of an attitude only a guy who always wears a beanie could have.
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132 - The Wanderer
July 3rd, 2023 | 48 mins 59 secs
around around around, bad dudes, dion, dion and the belmonts, objectification, sad dudes, the wanderer
Seth and Marc are up for a little surprise with Dion's The Wanderer.... or are they? What looks like it's a song about a horny dude who sees women as nothing but the holes they have might be about something a lot sadder.
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131 - Hungry Eyes
June 26th, 2023 | 51 mins 34 secs
eric carmen, eric cartman, hungry eyes, mind games, robocop, terminator
Finally, the guys get to dissect someone that Seth has had on his creep-dar from the jump: Eric Carmen with the Dirty Dancing hit Hungry Eyes. A classic of "I know you want me, so you may as well give in" complete with having someone "in [his] sights." For the love of Christ.
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130 - Inside Out
June 19th, 2023 | 1 hr 19 mins
eve 6, gaslighting, inside out, manipulation, the heart in a blender song
The guys put Eve 6's biggest hit Inside Out in a blender and watch it spin around to a terrible oblivion. It's kind of hard to tell exactly what's going on here though the general meaning of the song is somehow understood... sort of like knowing carbon monoxide could be filling a room and that you can die of it but you can't see it.
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129 - You're Beautiful
June 12th, 2023 | 50 mins 45 secs
big yikes, creepo, gaslighting, james blunt, stalking, you're beautiful
Seth and Marc listen through gritted teeth to the James Blunt light rock hit You're Beautiful. A song which is creepy even according to the songwriter though it is semi-autobiographical. Doesn't that tell you everything you need to know?
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128 - Simply Irresistable
June 5th, 2023 | 52 mins 43 secs
danger, enchantment, heavy nova, obsession, robert palmer, simpy irresistible
The guys have John Fahy (Profiles In Eccentricity) and Joe Lachut (7 Inches To Freedom/Graveyard Shift Screenprinting) on to talk about a song that is about a desire so great, you can't do 2nd grade math: Simply Irresistible. The claims get crazier and crazier as the song culminates in the narrator and his love interest forming into one being. Like The Fly.
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127 - I'm On Fire
May 29th, 2023 | 42 mins 42 secs
bruce springsteen, daddy, emotional blackmail, i'm on fire, little girl, manipulation, the boss
We know many people love The Boss.... including us! But you can't deny the strangeness and, yes, creepiness of his spooky hit I'm On Fire. This song hits you with the "little girl/daddy" and cleans up the place with some good emotional manipulation right at the end for good measure. And yodeling for desert!
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126 - Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover
May 22nd, 2023 | 1 hr 15 mins
damn i wish i was your lover, emotional manipulation, sophie b hawkins, tribbing
Shucks! Marc and Seth call in dear friends Tim and Joee to splay open the chest of Sophie B. Hawkins hit Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover. There are a lot of appalling things going on here from weird mommy stuff to emotional manipulation of a woman who is being abused to try and win her heart. Yowzers.
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125 - Time Of The Season
May 15th, 2023 | 44 mins 35 secs
garage rock, predatory free love, psychedelia, the zombies, time of the season
The 1960's were a time of great music, free love, and creeps predating on women who were into the free love movement. Seth and Marc look into Time Of The Season. Slick with great musicianship, lines like "what's your name? who's your daddy?" make it pretty hard to ignore the filth dripping off this dude.
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124 - Judy's Turn To Cry
May 8th, 2023 | 55 mins 14 secs
emotional blackmail, gaslighting, it's my party, johnny, judy, judy's turn to cry, leslie gore, manipulation
Seth and Marc go through the high school drama of Judy's Turn To Cry, the sequel to It's My Party. The biggest question going through these lyrics leaves us with is: Who would want to date any of these pieces of shit?
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123 - Sister Christian
May 1st, 2023 | 51 mins 15 secs
night ranger, sibling issues, sister christian, sister christy, yowzers
Seth and Marc uncover the high amount of sibling creepiness and mystery that is present in the Night Ranger hit song Sister Christian. At its very best, seemingly a controlling song trying to tell the titular Christian not to have sex and, at its worst, calling his sister "babe."
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122 - Roxanne
April 24th, 2023 | 1 hr 10 mins
anti-prostitution, catching feelings, police, prostitution, roxanne, the police, yikes
Seth and Marc round out Policepril with one of the band's most well known songs.... Roxanne; a song about a man's growing intensity to take a woman from being a prostitute whether she likes it or not and makes her aware that they are now together. Anti-sex worker AND scary. Quite a combo!
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121 - Can't Stand Losing You
April 17th, 2023 | 1 hr 7 mins
can't stand losing you, emotional manipulation, police, shocking sting quotes, suicide, the police
For the penultimate episode of Policepril, we get ultra-incel with the emotionally manipulative Can't Stand Losing You. And this time.... we brought a friend! Mike Kiniry joins us to take a deep hard look at this one. A pop hit about making someone feel bad for breaking up with you by killing yourself? Sure... why not?
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120 - Don't Stand So Close To Me
April 10th, 2023 | 1 hr 1 min
don't stand so close to me, maybe other kinds of rape, non-autobiographical, police, statutory rape, the police
As Policepril marches on, so do the creepy hits. This time, Sting and Co. are talking about a young horny teacher fucking one of his students in the song that was adopted by many during the pandemic... Don't Stand So Close To Me! A very peculiar song for an ex-English teacher to sing and say "it's not about me!" but here we are.
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119 - Every Breath You Take
April 3rd, 2023 | 1 hr 4 mins
big brother, every breath you take, stalking, synchronicity, the police, yikes
A very happy Policepril to you all! We're doing a month of some of the creepiest, suprisingest, or possibly misunderstoodiest songs by hit 70's-80's supergroup The Police. We're working backwards in our timeline so we'll start at the end with their biggest hit; the extremely frightening Every Breath You Take. Draw the blinds, find under the covers, and don't make a sound... they'll be watching you.
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118 - Sex And Candy
March 27th, 2023 | 51 mins 48 secs
90's music, jeff wozniak, marcy playground, no relation, pseudo pedophilia, sex and candy
The guys try to look as deep as you can into a song that seems to be based off of a remark made by an ex-girlfriends college roommate about a decade earlier and a bunch of stupid made up lingo; Sex And Candy by Marcy Playground. A song that sounds like it's about pedophilia and it isn't but it still sucks.