Radiohead — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 98 songs across 9 albums by Radiohead. They use 1,694 unique words out of 5,653 (lexical richness MATTR 0.59), with an average of 58 content words per song. Emotional tone: 20% of songs positive, 40% neutral, 40% negative.
Most used words by Radiohead
- know (56)
- want (48)
- raindrops (47)
- back (44)
- one (43)
- hurt (42)
- see (38)
- come (38)
- take (37)
- walking (36)
- around (35)
- nothing (33)
- feel (31)
- time (30)
- broken (29)
- love (28)
- alive (28)
- mess (28)
- coming (28)
- little (28)
Signature phrases
- “hearts make rain” (17)
- “broken hearts make” (17)
- “make rain broken” (16)
- “rain broken hearts” (16)
- “mess truth mess” (15)
- “truth mess truth” (15)
- “paying attention paying” (15)
- “attention paying attention” (15)
- “hurt hurt arms” (14)
- “arms hurt hurt” (13)
Colors in the lyrics
- black (7)
- white (6)
- green (5)
- red (4)
- blue (3)
- grey (1)
Albums analyzed
- Pablo Honey (1993)
- The Bends (1994)
- OK Computer (1997)
- Kid A (2000)
- Amnesiac (2001)
- Hail to the Thief (2003)
- In Rainbows (2007)
- The King of Limbs (2011)
- A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)