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

  • 08 - Wango Tango

    February 5th, 2021  |  44 mins 30 secs
    car fucking, motor city madman, tango, ted nugent, the nuge, wango, wango tango

    Seth and Marc weed through the less-than-subtle Motor City Madman atrocity Wango Tango and Nuge's desire to have coitus with an automobile-cum-woman a la Diamond Dave in Panama.

  • 07 - Brown Sugar

    January 29th, 2021  |  34 mins 36 secs
    brown, fetishism, sugar, the rolling stones, weird

    On this episode, Marc and Seth come face-to-face with the troublesome lyrics of a song they both love dearly in Brown Sugar by The Rolling Stones.

  • 06 - One Week

    January 22nd, 2021  |  44 mins 18 secs
    anime, barenaked ladies, gaslighting, one week, underage girls

    Seth and Marc go line-by-line trying to figure out just what The Barenaked Ladies were trying to say with their 1998 hit tongue twister One Week but mostly fail.

  • 05 - All I Wanna Do

    January 15th, 2021  |  33 mins 2 secs
    all i wanna do, botany, flowers, lyrics, seeds

    Seth and Marc break down the real story behind Heart's 90's hit All I Wanna Do while giving them a quick lesson in flower fertilization.

  • 04 - Panama

    January 8th, 2021  |  31 mins 1 sec
    female car hybrids, halen, lyrics, panama, van, van halen

    Marc and Seth do their best to delve into the psyche of Diamond Dave and Co. in this lyrical jigsaw puzzle that may very well be talking about a car/woman hybrid straight from the Isle of Dr. Moreau.

  • 03 - Jane

    January 1st, 2021  |  34 mins 7 secs
    gaslighting, jane, jefferson, jefferson starship, lyrics, starship

    What do you get when you have a Grace Slick-less group of musicians hopped up on drugs and booze who want to gaslight and threaten a woman? You get the late 70's rock anthem Jane! Seth and Marc read and piece together exactly what Jefferson Starship is trying to get at and count the many times the titular Jane's desires to be free are questioned.

  • 02 - Fuck Wit Dre Day (And Everybody's Celebratin')

    December 25th, 2020  |  37 mins 59 secs
    control, dr. dre, emcee, fuck wit dre, funky shit, lyrics, maestro, producer, rap

    In the truly first recorded episode of L2G, Seth and Marc take on the homo-erotic lyrics of a rap classic while also working out the kinks of what kind of penis would be needed to fit through gapped teeth.

  • 01 - The Stroke

    December 17th, 2020  |  40 mins
    billy squier, classic rock, lyrics, stroke

    Seth and Marc, after a relatively short introduction, pick at the web of confusing lyrics that make up the "hit" Billy Squier song The Stroke to only moderate success.