Pink Floyd — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 106 songs across 13 albums by Pink Floyd. They use 2,456 unique words out of 6,927 (lexical richness MATTR 0.79), with an average of 65 content words per song. Emotional tone: 25% of songs positive, 41% neutral, 35% negative.
Most used words by Pink Floyd
- one (65)
- sun (56)
- time (55)
- day (45)
- run (45)
- make (44)
- heart (43)
- way (42)
- away (42)
- know (42)
- wall (41)
- need (38)
- come (35)
- take (35)
- words (35)
- home (34)
- world (34)
- good (33)
- see (31)
- feel (30)
Signature phrases
- “sun heart sun” (27)
- “heart sun heart” (27)
- “tear wall tear” (14)
- “wall tear wall” (13)
- “one world one” (8)
- “shine crazy diamond” (8)
- “words louder words” (7)
- “louder words louder” (7)
- “world one world” (7)
- “one day” (7)
Colors in the lyrics
- green (18)
- blue (14)
- black (10)
- silver (7)
- pink (7)
- red (5)
- gold (4)
- lime (3)
Albums analyzed
- The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
- A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
- Ummagumma (1969)
- Atom Heart Mother (1970)
- Meddle (1971)
- The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
- Wish You Were Here (1975)
- Animals (1977)
- The Wall (1979)
- The Final Cut (1983)
- A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
- The Division Bell (1994)
- The Endless River (2014)