Adrianne Lenker — Lyric Analysis

LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 43 songs across 6 albums by Adrianne Lenker. They use 1,349 unique words out of 3,736 (lexical richness MATTR 0.75), with an average of 87 content words per song. Emotional tone: 70% of songs positive, 0% neutral, 30% negative.

Most used words by Adrianne Lenker

1. know (39)
2. one (36)
3. come (35)
4. love (32)
5. time (29)
6. around (27)
7. see (25)
8. heart (23)
9. angel (23)
10. eyes (22)
11. take (20)
12. lot (20)
13. feel (19)
14. let (19)
15. two (19)
16. mind (19)
17. nothing (19)
18. little (19)
19. talk (17)
20. half (17)

Signature phrases

• “come around ruined” (15)
• “everything eats eaten” (8)
• “boy lot nerve” (8)
• “lot nerve toy” (8)
• “hour enough come” (7)
• “around ruined come” (7)
• “coming hour enough” (7)
• “enough come around” (7)
• “ruined come around” (7)
• “forwards beckon rebound” (7)

Colors in the lyrics

• red (9)
• blue (8)
• white (6)
• grey (3)
• indigo (2)
• black (1)
• green (1)
• yellow (1)

Albums analyzed

• Stages of the Sun (2006)
• Hours Were the Birds (2014)
• abysskiss (2018)
• songs (2020)
• instrumentals (2020)
• Bright Future (2024)