Black Sabbath — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 155 songs across 19 albums by Black Sabbath. They use 2,508 unique words out of 13,739 (lexical richness MATTR 0.75), with an average of 89 content words per song. Emotional tone: 41% of songs positive, 2% neutral, 57% negative.
Most used words by Black Sabbath
- life (147)
- see (146)
- away (145)
- love (136)
- time (133)
- know (119)
- world (99)
- say (97)
- take (96)
- eyes (93)
- one (90)
- night (89)
- die (86)
- evil (85)
- feel (85)
- tell (74)
- mind (73)
- way (70)
- look (68)
- turn (68)
Signature phrases
- “death calls” (19)
- “hard road” (17)
- “good feels good” (16)
- “feels good feels” (16)
- “young die young” (13)
- “take away” (13)
- “walk away” (13)
- “headless cross” (13)
- “lost forever” (13)
- “call seventh star” (12)
Colors in the lyrics
- black (37)
- red (12)
- gold (9)
- silver (9)
- white (5)
- blue (5)
- crimson (3)
- gray (1)
Albums analyzed
- Black Sabbath (1970)
- Paranoid (1970)
- Master of Reality (1971)
- Vol 4 (1972)
- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973)
- Sabotage (1975)
- Technical Ecstasy (1976)
- Never Say Die! (1978)
- Heaven and Hell (1980)
- Mob Rules (1981)
- Born Again (1983)
- Seventh Star (1986)
- The Eternal Idol (1987)
- Headless Cross (1989)
- TYR (1990)
- Dehumanizer (1992)
- Cross Purposes (1994)
- Forbidden (1995)
- 13 (2013)