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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13 - Dance Hall Days
March 12th, 2021 | 36 mins 44 secs
american psycho, chung, creepy, dance, dancehalls, days, hall, manipulation, wang, wang chung
Marc and Seth dive deep into the mind of the Patrick Bateman-esque singer of Wang Hung (not Hung Chung.) Join them on their nostalgic trip down memory lane back when you could grab your lady by whatever you wanted to and try to manipulate her by using her "darkest fears" against her through the power of suggestion.
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12 - Come With Me
March 5th, 2021 | 1 hr 4 mins
come with me, godzilla, gojira, mutual masturbation, p diddy, puff daddy, sean combs, sean puffy combs
Seth and Marc welcome their first guest; Co-host of the Know Nonsense Trivia Podcast Lee Bretschneider! Together, we discuss the atrocious Puff Daddy song replete with Godzilla screams and the worst Robert Plant impression on record.
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11 - Hey Soul Sister
February 26th, 2021 | 36 mins 1 sec
cringe, hey, hey soul sister, pat monahan, soul sister, sweet moonbeam, train, untrimmed chest
Seth and Marc put themselves through the pain and horror of TWO Train songs back-to-back. Here, the guys attempt to untangle everything from Pat Monahan's cryptic reference to a moonbeam to his untrimmed chest.
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10 - Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)
February 19th, 2021 | 42 mins 59 secs
deep fried chicken, drop, drops of jupiter, gas giant, me, soy latte, train
The guys stumble upon a fact that throws all preconceived notions out the window! Luckily, the words are so shitty that they have no issues. Narcissism, possible mother-son sexual fantasties, and soy lattes. This song has it all.
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09 - Run For Your Life
February 12th, 2021 | 45 mins 43 secs
beatles, big yikes, guy, jealous, john lennon, lots of therapy, paul mccartney, the beatles, therapy, yikes
With heaviness and sadness in their hearts, Marc and Seth have to take on one of their favorite bands of all time... which is a little easier to do when said band is threatening and gaslighting a partner they repeatedly refer to as "little girl."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.