Bruce Springsteen — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 253 songs across 21 albums by Bruce Springsteen. They use 4,857 unique words out of 32,260 (lexical richness MATTR 0.73), with an average of 128 content words per song. Emotional tone: 44% of songs positive, 41% neutral, 15% negative.
Most used words by Bruce Springsteen
- baby (377)
- come (342)
- love (313)
- night (281)
- away (219)
- man (204)
- one (189)
- little (180)
- heart (173)
- back (170)
- let (168)
- tonight (165)
- day (164)
- know (147)
- girl (144)
- home (132)
- way (130)
- hand (129)
- take (125)
- town (123)
Signature phrases
- “hand raise hand” (63)
- “raise hand raise” (63)
- “rain let rain” (41)
- “let rain let” (40)
- “ri oor ri” (36)
- “woke morning” (27)
- “blowed away” (27)
- “rocker baby rocker” (26)
- “last night” (26)
- “little girl” (26)
Colors in the lyrics
- black (76)
- blue (32)
- white (26)
- red (25)
- silver (14)
- green (13)
- rose (11)
- gold (10)
Albums analyzed
- Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. (1973)
- The Wild, the Innocent & The E Street Shuffle (1973)
- Born to Run (1975)
- Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)
- The River (1980)
- Nebraska (1982)
- Born in the U.S.A. (1984)
- Tunnel of Love (1987)
- Human Touch (1992)
- Lucky Town (1992)
- The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995)
- The Rising (2002)
- Devils & Dust (2005)
- We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2006)
- Magic (2007)
- Working on a Dream (2008)
- Wrecking Ball (2012)
- High Hopes (2014)
- Western Stars (2019)
- Letter to You (2020)
- Only the Strong Survive: Covers, Vol. 1 (2022)