Deep Purple — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 213 songs across 23 albums by Deep Purple. They use 3,429 unique words out of 18,030 (lexical richness MATTR 0.74), with an average of 85 content words per song. Emotional tone: 62% of songs positive, 1% neutral, 38% negative.
Most used words by Deep Purple
- know (239)
- love (201)
- time (181)
- see (166)
- way (153)
- want (147)
- one (139)
- man (122)
- baby (120)
- take (119)
- back (110)
- need (108)
- make (100)
- come (98)
- said (96)
- long (93)
- right (90)
- good (90)
- nothing (88)
- away (87)
Signature phrases
- “long way” (17)
- “mean streak” (17)
- “far away” (16)
- “cut runs deep” (13)
- “last night” (13)
- “kentucky woman” (13)
- “rock roll” (12)
- “comin home” (12)
- “love baby” (11)
- “one night” (10)
Colors in the lyrics
- blue (31)
- black (31)
- red (13)
- silver (12)
- white (11)
- grey (11)
- gold (8)
- green (7)
Albums analyzed
- Shades of Deep Purple (1968)
- The Book of Taliesyn (1968)
- Deep Purple (1969)
- Deep Purple in Rock (1970)
- Fireball (1971)
- Machine Head (1972)
- Who Do We Think We Are (1973)
- Burn (1974)
- Stormbringer (1974)
- Come Taste the Band (1975)
- Perfect Strangers (1984)
- The House of Blue Light (1987)
- Slaves and Masters (1990)
- The Battle Rages On… (1993)
- Purpendicular (1996)
- Abandon (1998)
- Bananas (2003)
- Rapture of the Deep (2005)
- Now What?! (2013)
- Infinite (2017)
- Whoosh! (2020)
- Turning to Crime (2021)
- =1 (2024)