ABBA — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 92 songs across 9 albums by ABBA. They use 1,826 unique words out of 10,323 (lexical richness MATTR 0.66), with an average of 112 content words per song. Emotional tone: 37% of songs positive, 49% neutral, 14% negative.
Most used words by ABBA
- know (146)
- love (145)
- see (108)
- one (108)
- ha (95)
- take (94)
- time (82)
- think (79)
- let (78)
- life (75)
- way (68)
- make (68)
- baby (60)
- feel (60)
- sing (58)
- chance (58)
- honey (56)
- feeling (54)
- give (52)
- little (52)
Signature phrases
- “people need” (20)
- “round merry round” (19)
- “merry round merry” (17)
- “per troup per” (15)
- “sup per troup” (15)
- “kisses fire” (15)
- “voulez vous aha” (14)
- “live little longer” (14)
- “lovers live little” (14)
- “angel eyes” (14)
Colors in the lyrics
- blue (19)
- yellow (4)
- black (3)
- grey (1)
- gold (1)
- rose (1)
- red (1)
Albums analyzed
- Ring Ring (1973)
- Waterloo (1974)
- ABBA (1975)
- Arrival (1976)
- The Album (1977)
- Voulez‐vous (1979)
- Super Trouper (1980)
- The Visitors (1981)
- Voyage (2021)