Paul McCartney — Lyric Analysis

LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 229 songs across 24 albums by Paul McCartney. They use 2,815 unique words out of 19,688 (lexical richness MATTR 0.58), with an average of 86 content words per song. Emotional tone: 15% of songs positive, 77% neutral, 8% negative.

Most used words by Paul McCartney

1. love (490)
2. know (270)
3. come (199)
4. want (195)
5. away (178)
6. say (161)
7. one (160)
8. time (145)
9. see (144)
10. long (136)
11. right (135)
12. way (131)
13. baby (129)
14. back (129)
15. take (127)
16. feel (124)
17. day (123)
18. good (123)
19. night (115)
20. little (108)

Signature phrases

• “away smile away” (37)
• “smile away smile” (34)
• “beautiful night beautiful” (33)
• “night beautiful night” (32)
• “good times coming” (26)
• “meet falling rain” (26)
• “love long love” (22)
• “long love long” (21)
• “find love” (21)
• “nobody knows” (21)

Colors in the lyrics

• blue (17)
• silver (11)
• brown (11)
• black (9)
• white (7)
• red (4)
• grey (4)
• gray (2)

Albums analyzed

• McCartney (1970)
• RAM (1971)
• McCartney II (1980)
• Tug of War (1982)
• Pipes of Peace (1983)
• Press to Play (1986)
• Снова в СССР (1988)
• Flowers in the Dirt (1989)
• Off the Ground (1993)
• Flaming Pie (1997)
• Standing Stone (1997)
• Run Devil Run (1999)
• Working Classical (1999)
• Liverpool Sound Collage (2000)
• Driving Rain (2001)
• Chaos and Creation in the Backyard (2005)
• Ecce Cor Meum (2006)
• Memory Almost Full (2007)
• Ocean’s Kingdom (2011)
• Kisses on the Bottom (2012)
• New (2013)
• Egypt Station (2018)
• McCartney III (2020)
• The Boys of Dungeon Lane (2026)