Goo Goo Dolls — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 170 songs across 16 albums by Goo Goo Dolls. They use 2,233 unique words out of 14,763 (lexical richness MATTR 0.64), with an average of 87 content words per song. Emotional tone: 34% of songs positive, 38% neutral, 29% negative.
Most used words by Goo Goo Dolls
- know (350)
- feel (180)
- love (175)
- see (172)
- one (148)
- time (145)
- need (137)
- way (135)
- take (133)
- let (127)
- away (126)
- come (116)
- want (114)
- say (114)
- world (113)
- back (109)
- eyes (93)
- gone (92)
- think (90)
- life (84)
Signature phrases
- “long way” (27)
- “eyes wide open” (24)
- “last hot night” (19)
- “come back” (18)
- “ass kick ass” (16)
- “kick ass kick” (16)
- “let know” (16)
- “let snow let” (15)
- “snow let snow” (15)
- “know feel” (15)
Colors in the lyrics
- black (11)
- white (6)
- blue (6)
- red (3)
- gold (3)
- grey (2)
- gray (2)
- green (1)
Albums analyzed
- Goo Goo Dolls (1987)
- Jed (1989)
- Hold Me Up (1990)
- Superstar Car Wash (1993)
- A Boy Named Goo (1994)
- Dizzy Up the Girl (1998)
- Gutterflower (2002)
- Let Love In (2006)
- Something for the Rest of Us (2010)
- Magnetic (2013)
- Made to Be Broken (2013)
- Boxes (2016)
- Miracle Pill (2019)
- It’s Christmas All Over (2020)
- Chaos in Bloom (2022)
- It’s Christmas All Over (Again) (2023)