Imagine Dragons — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 96 songs across 7 albums by Imagine Dragons. They use 1,867 unique words out of 11,618 (lexical richness MATTR 0.58), with an average of 121 content words per song. Emotional tone: 47% of songs positive, 36% neutral, 17% negative.
Most used words by Imagine Dragons
- know (200)
- one (191)
- love (168)
- life (156)
- take (149)
- let (131)
- time (120)
- come (95)
- everything (89)
- night (86)
- see (84)
- way (84)
- mind (82)
- keep (80)
- want (80)
- thunder (80)
- back (77)
- day (76)
- turn (74)
- away (73)
Signature phrases
- “need let” (21)
- “come alive come” (20)
- “alive come alive” (20)
- “bet life bet” (18)
- “want trouble want” (18)
- “trouble want trouble” (18)
- “sometimes little” (17)
- “life bet life” (16)
- “thun thunder” (16)
- “thunder thun” (16)
Colors in the lyrics
- gold (37)
- red (7)
- black (6)
- white (6)
- gray (2)
- pink (1)
- grey (1)
- green (1)
Albums analyzed
- Night Visions (2012)
- Smoke + Mirrors (2015)
- Evolve (2017)
- Origins (2018)
- Mercury – Act 1 (2021)
- Mercury – Act 2 (2022)
- LOOM (2024)