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
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35 - Ice Ice Baby
August 12th, 2021 | 56 mins 34 secs
bad rap, ice, ice baby, robert van winkle, too cold, vanilla ice, word to your mother
Take heed! Lyrical "poet" Rob Van Winkle's 1990 hit Ice Ice Baby gets a good once over courtesy of Marc and Seth. Clunky lines, terrible idioms, and false bravado abound! Hear a setp by step breakdown of the song that catapulted White People into rap experts.
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34 - Girls And Boys
August 5th, 2021 | 38 mins 1 sec
bad charlotte, boys, ferraris, girl, girls and boys, good charlotte, misogyny, shopping sprees
What's that terrible smell? Ahhh yes. It's the stench of Good Charlotte lyrics. Marc and Seth look as deeply as one can into the shallow pool of misogyny and confused message that is Girls And Boys. Take a trip with them and try to figure out what the hell is going on.
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33 - Crash Into Me
July 30th, 2021 | 40 mins 46 secs
crash, crash into me, dave matthews band, dirty rascal, dmb, peeing tom, stalking
We're gonna go back to the days of the mid-late 90's when puka shell necklaces and kegstands were all rage... Also in the national zeitgeist at the time? Being a fucking peeping tom with abandonment issues, apparently. Topped off with a nursery rhyme! Dave Matthews and his band of talented misfits unleashed this anthem for stalkers unto a mostly unknowing crowd. We can stay silent no longer.
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32 - Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
July 23rd, 2021 | 45 mins 38 secs
brain, cape, dunes, escape, lady, pina coladas, rain, shitty guitar solos, tomorrow noon, yoga
Pull up a beach chair, some personal ads, and a fruity drink! Seth and Marc bring to light the true story behind the sing along that probably caused the Jonestown Massacre. We learn that Rupert Holmes doesn't know how personal ads (or marriages) work and what really happens to the famous couple.
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31 - As Good As I Once Was
July 15th, 2021 | 38 mins 2 secs
as good as i once was, as good once as i ever was, color of money, excessive commas, keith, threesomes, toby, toby keith
Break out your Stetson and some Wranglers and bind and gag Toby Keith! Marc and Seth tackle a real Southern anthem to incestuous threesomes and bailing your buddy out of shitty situations he chose to get himself into.... all tied together by one of the clunkiest attempts at a tagline ever. Fun!
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30 - Butterfly
July 8th, 2021 | 1 hr 2 mins
baby, butterflies, butterfly, crazy town, crazytown, shaky legs, sugar
A supersized episode for a supersized piece of shit song! Marc and Seth recruit real Crazy Town professional Elyse in to help figure out what the fuck this song is. About as romantic as school bus crash, Shifty Shellshock and Epic Mazur pen this shitty poetry to some very unlucky women who would probably rather their eyes eaten out by rats.
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29 - By The Way
July 2nd, 2021 | 48 mins 1 sec
2 syllable words, blood bath, by the way, card shark, chili, hot, peppers, red, red hot chili peppers, rhcp, rib cage
After putting it off as long as they could, Marc and Seth finally take on the task of trying to decipher some of Anthony Kiedis' inane lyrics... and this one is a humdinger. Filled with placeholder two-syllable nonsense and shitty lines that are held together by duct tape, this song is too good for the words inside of it.
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28 - Seventeen
June 25th, 2021 | 40 mins 43 secs
17, creep factor, daddy, jailbait, questionable content, seventeen, winger
Marc and Seth take on Kip, Reb and Co. while breaking down the song Seventeen by Winger. Not only is this song gross, but it also has a Tenet-esque timeline where we're seemingly jumping through portals. Who would've guessed a guy named Kip would be an unreliable narrator?
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27 - Cocaine
June 18th, 2021 | 47 mins 52 secs
alcohol, clapton, cocaine, eric, eric clapton, heroin, jj cale, slow hand, slowhand
Seth and Marc invite old friend and Cocaine Specialist John Cappozzo over to discuss the "anti-drug" song Cocaine. Originally written by JJ Cale and made famous by Cocaine Specialist Eric Clapton, this song has the rhyming scheme of a 3rd graders' poetry and sounds like cocaine is pretty handy... especially for an "anti-drug" song.
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26 - Pardon Me
June 11th, 2021 | 36 mins
3-d, calamity, combustication, combustion, incubus, pardon me, spontaneous, succubus
Seth and Marc listen to Brandon Boyd and Co. make a mountain out of a molehill. Make no mistake about it... 23 was a rough age for the singer-cum-sex icon. But so bad that he was on the verge of exploding? We hardly think so.
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25 - Funky Cold Medina
June 4th, 2021 | 39 mins 58 secs
ace ventura, bestiality, date rape, drugging, fuzzy navel, loc, tone, tone loc, transphobia
Seth and Marc put on some thick gold chains and bust it b-boy style with one of the strangest pro-date/pro-bestiality/pro-transphobic songs of all time. Every verse gets stranger culminating in what finally makes him hang up his concoction... the threat of marriage!
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24 - Africa
May 28th, 2021 | 39 mins 27 secs
80's drums, africa, national geographic, olympus, serengeti, toto
Seth and Marc do that cool thing where someone clears off the table with a big swipe and unfurl a large map of the Motherland Of Humanity: Africa! Unfortunately, it was written by some dorky white musical prodigies who only knew the continent from Nat Geo and commercials. A failed love plot briefly mentioned, "mystical lyrics" by way of bad poetry, and geographical errors. We're here for it.
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23 - Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright)
May 21st, 2021 | 44 mins 52 secs
coercion, mk ultra, power struggles, rod, rod stewart, sex slave, stewart, the rod, tonight's the night
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22 - Take A Chance On Me
May 14th, 2021 | 35 mins 45 secs
abba, forced love, love with air quotes around it, marrying your stalker, stalkers, stalking, take a chance on me
Seth and Marc take a swan dive into the pathetic and increasingly rabid lyrics of Take A Chance On Me. Even the beautiful members of ABBA are sometimes on the non-receiving end of unrequited love and according to these words, they don't deal with it very well. It starts of sad and quickly gets pretty creepy.
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21 - Girl Watcher
May 7th, 2021 | 30 mins 21 secs
creeps, girl watching, girls, mmm mmm mmm, my my my, peeping toms, stalking, voyeurism, watching
Seth and Marc are hopping into the Creep Delorean with Nice Guy's owner Greg Gebhard and saved a seat for you! Take a trip in the wayyyyyback machine... back to a time where a man could openly write a song about stalking women and probably jerking off in some nicely trimmed hedges. This song gets worse and worse as it goes on which is a special kind of hell and leaves you wondering where the story goes.
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20 - Little Things
April 30th, 2021 | 28 mins 46 secs
bush, little, little things, meth, ravioli, things, wolves
It's Bush 2: Electric Bugaloo! Seth and Marc listen to some more this-or-that bullshit from Mr. Rossdale from a song that is allegedly about "feeling encumbered by life and overtaken by life and dwarfed by life" but also be about sweet, sweet methamphetamine. I KEELL!