About the show

Lyrics to Go is a show about bad song lyrics. Listen in as music geeks Marc Davis, Seth Ford and guests discuss songs with terrible, misunderstood or confusing lyrics.

Episodes

  • 206 - Keep On Loving You

    December 2nd, 2024  |  56 mins 15 secs
    divorce, hissing, infidelity, keep on loving you, reo speedwagon, snakes

    The guys get into the depths of the lyrics to REO Speedwagon's monster ballad Keep On Loving You. Known for its chorus proclaiming a never-ending love, the verses tell a much bleaker story that is often overshadowed.

  • 205 - You Can Call Me Al

    November 25th, 2024  |  1 hr 32 mins
    african music, apartheid, art garfunkel, chevy chase, graceland, introspection, paul simon, you can call me al

    A monster-sized episode! The guys are back after a mini vacation and have the immense joy to talk about the did-you-know-ness of You Can Call Me Al. How deep can a song with Chevy Chase lip sync-ing the lyrics in the music video get? You be the judge. Also, a big announcement!

  • 204 - Cheap Sunglasses

    November 18th, 2024  |  43 mins 21 secs
    cheap sunglasses, deguello, eyewear, molasses, sweaters, thick black frames, zz top

    The guys listen to the 1979 ZZ Top ode to shitty eyewear... Cheap Sunglasses. Partially about the titular glasses, it's also about stalking a woman because hey! Why not?

  • 203 - Fireflies

    November 11th, 2024  |  45 mins 9 secs
    fireflies, foxtrot, insomnia, lightning bugs, owl city, sock hop

    Seth and Marc would like to make themselves believe... that these lyrics are not complete ass. The guys stay up late poring over the lyrics to the nonsense insomniac diddy Fireflies by Owl City. A song about getting hugs ad learning to dance from bugs. Okay...

  • 202 - Amber

    November 4th, 2024  |  55 mins 3 secs
    311, amber, aura, frat guys, from chaos, mood rings

    Woooaaah! Seth and Marc struggle to find the real message behind the 311 reggae rock ballad Amber. With lyrics that sound like they were made up on the fly by a horny frat guy trying to get some strange, are we just wasting our time? Probably

  • 201 - Little Red Corvette

    October 28th, 2024  |  56 mins
    cars, condoms, little red corvette, prince, princetober, women, women as cars

    Seth and Marc finish out Princetober with Princes first hit: Little Red Corvette. Yet another episode that compares women to cars and then about having sex with them. But this time, with a little bit of horse imagery as well to make it extra weird.

  • 200 - Work That Fat

    October 21st, 2024  |  1 hr 18 mins
    chubby chasing, diamond and pearls, new power generation, objectification, prince, prince and the new power generation, work that fat

    Seth and Marc celebrate episode 200 in the midst of Princetober with the very troublesome Work That Fat. This isn't a single and, in some ways, it's barely a song. A voice-altered Prince makes a bunch of middle school jokes at a fat woman's expense while also saying how much he loves fat women. Yikes.

  • 199 - Gett Off

    October 14th, 2024  |  1 hr 23 mins
    diamonds and pearls, gett off, prince, princetober, rumors, solicitation

    Princetober continues with The Guys about Gett Off, a song about a rumor Prince heard about the last time a woman had sex. Seems kind of rude, but it prompts him to let her know that people are talking about her... which also seems a little weird.

  • 198 - Sister

    October 7th, 2024  |  46 mins 5 secs
    dirty mind, incest, prince, princetober, sister, statutory incest rape, statutory rape

    Seth and Marc kick off Princetober with his very controversial and very punky song Sister. If you know anything about Prince's hypersexuality, the title should worry you... and with good reason.

  • 197 - Kokomo

    September 30th, 2024  |  1 hr 9 mins
    afternoon sex, carbibean islands, cocktail, kokomo, the beach boys, various vacation spots

    This week, Seth and Marc grab a couple of parasols and head down to everyone's favorite destination: Kokomo! A fall from grace from the band that brought us one of the best albums in pop music history, this piece of hot trash is on many lists of worst songs... and the lyrics are definitely a part of that equation.

  • 196 - Got My Mind Set On You

    September 23rd, 2024  |  56 mins 57 secs
    george harrison, got my mind set on you, james ray, money, obsession, precious time, rudy clark, spending money, stalker, time

    Seth and Marc get deep into the psyche of an obsessive man depraved of love with the song Got My Mind Set On You as made famous by ex-Beatle George Harrison. Originally written by Rudy Clark and first covered by James Ray, when you start to do some digging, the lyrics bring about more questions than they answer.

  • 195 - Wonderwall

    September 16th, 2024  |  1 hr 15 mins
    britpop, ex-girlfriend hatred, gaslighting, morning glory, oasis, what's the story, wonderwall

    The guys bring on dear friend and resident Liam Gallagher hater Fletcher to work through the hit song Wonderwall. A song that was and then was not about Liam's then-girlfriend, the meaning was changed to be about an invisible friend that he's gaslighting... but no one is buying it. Least of all us.

  • 194 - Holy Diver

    September 9th, 2024  |  1 hr 11 mins
    black sabbath, catholicism, dio, elf, holy diver, rainbow, ronnie james dio, snapped chains

    Seth and Marc invite past guest favorite Doug (and Rebecca!) to discuss the strangely religious Holy Diver by Dio. Tigers and stripes and hearts and a midnight sea. What the hell?

  • 193 - Muskrat Love

    September 2nd, 2024  |  58 mins 7 secs
    america, captain and tennille, muskrat fucking, muskrat love, muskrat sex, willis alan ramsay

    Seth and Marc invite favorite guest Jamie to talk about a song written Willis Alan Ramsay, covered with moderate success by America, and then covered with much greater success by Captain and Tennille... we are, of course, talking about Muskrat Love. One of the only hit songs about a rodent, and the only song about muskrats fucking.

  • 192 - Too Close

    August 26th, 2024  |  1 hr 15 mins
    boner, boners, bump and grind, next, too close

    Seth and Marc bump and grind to the late 90's boner-themed Too Close by Next. How did anyone take this song seriously?! A song about getting a hard on from dancing close to a woman who then tells him "enough is enough."

  • 191 - Electric Avenue

    August 19th, 2024  |  1 hr 15 mins
    crooked police, eddy grant, electric avenue, jamaican british, margaret thatcher, racism

    Seth and Marc get very deep into the history of Eddy Grant's hit Electric Avenue after a few suggestions from listeners.... and boy, what a background it is. A tale that starts in the 1940s and culminates in a bop with some questionable rhyme schemes.