Guns N’ Roses — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 39 songs across 6 albums by Guns N’ Roses. They use 1,316 unique words out of 4,708 (lexical richness MATTR 0.65), with an average of 121 content words per song. Emotional tone: 54% of songs positive, 0% neutral, 46% negative.
Most used words by Guns N’ Roses
- know (116)
- one (62)
- way (54)
- back (53)
- fun (50)
- better (46)
- said (46)
- love (43)
- need (41)
- human (38)
- see (36)
- say (35)
- time (33)
- little (33)
- tonight (33)
- baby (30)
- easy (29)
- bitch (28)
- fuck (25)
- look (25)
Signature phrases
- “back back bitch” (16)
- “boys play rock” (16)
- “nice boys play” (16)
- “play rock roll” (16)
- “rock roll nice” (14)
- “roll nice boys” (12)
- “know human” (12)
- “way way anything” (11)
- “way anything goes” (11)
- “anything goes tonight” (11)
Colors in the lyrics
- rose (7)
- black (2)
- white (2)
- gold (2)
- blue (1)
- red (1)
Albums analyzed
- Appetite for Destruction (1987)
- G N’ R Lies (1988)
- Use Your Illusion I (1991)
- Use Your Illusion II (1991)
- “The Spaghetti Incident?” (1993)
- Chinese Democracy (2008)