David Bowie — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 271 songs across 27 albums by David Bowie. They use 4,782 unique words out of 27,330 (lexical richness MATTR 0.65), with an average of 101 content words per song. Emotional tone: 27% of songs positive, 46% neutral, 27% negative.
Most used words by David Bowie
- love (294)
- time (197)
- one (193)
- little (183)
- know (179)
- man (160)
- baby (159)
- day (147)
- life (145)
- away (145)
- eyes (140)
- let (138)
- way (134)
- see (131)
- back (129)
- come (124)
- feel (122)
- take (122)
- say (120)
- want (117)
Signature phrases
- “tvc one five” (40)
- “little bit” (32)
- “far away far” (31)
- “away far away” (30)
- “hearts filthy lesson” (28)
- “turn around” (27)
- “five tvc one” (26)
- “one five tvc” (26)
- “feel free feel” (24)
- “free feel free” (24)
Colors in the lyrics
- blue (68)
- red (47)
- black (38)
- white (35)
- gold (19)
- green (17)
- silver (15)
- grey (5)
Albums analyzed
- David Bowie (1967)
- David Bowie (1969)
- The Man Who Sold the World (1970)
- Hunky Dory (1971)
- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars (1972)
- Aladdin Sane (1973)
- Pin Ups (1973)
- Diamond Dogs (1974)
- Young Americans (1975)
- Station to Station (1976)
- Low (1977)
- “Heroes” (1977)
- David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf (1978)
- Lodger (1979)
- Scary Monsters… and Super Creeps (1980)
- Let’s Dance (1983)
- Tonight (1984)
- Never Let Me Down (1987)
- Black Tie White Noise (1993)
- 1.Outside: The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle (1995)
- Earthling (1997)
- ‘hours…’ (1999)
- Heathen (2002)
- Reality (2003)
- Toy (2011)
- The Next Day (2013)
- ★ (2016)