Alice in Chains — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 70 songs across 6 albums by Alice in Chains. They use 1,632 unique words out of 5,880 (lexical richness MATTR 0.68), with an average of 84 content words per song. Emotional tone: 34% of songs positive, 1% neutral, 64% negative.
Most used words by Alice in Chains
- know (101)
- see (65)
- time (63)
- one (51)
- feel (51)
- way (49)
- mind (46)
- away (42)
- inside (35)
- god (35)
- tell (34)
- something (33)
- let (33)
- face (33)
- take (32)
- eyes (32)
- love (30)
- find (28)
- think (28)
- want (27)
Signature phrases
- “bout know something” (15)
- “know something bout” (15)
- “something bout know” (15)
- “goin steps white” (12)
- “steps white line” (12)
- “intend obsolescence built” (10)
- “obsolescence built system” (10)
- “pretty done” (10)
- “beside hell within” (9)
- “heaven beside hell” (9)
Colors in the lyrics
- black (14)
- white (12)
- gold (8)
- blue (7)
- red (6)
- rose (3)
- grey (2)
- green (2)
Albums analyzed
- Facelift (1990)
- Dirt (1992)
- Alice in Chains (1995)
- Black Gives Way to Blue (2009)
- The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (2013)
- Rainier Fog (2018)