Rainbow — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 66 songs across 8 albums by Rainbow. They use 1,442 unique words out of 6,324 (lexical richness MATTR 0.72), with an average of 96 content words per song. Emotional tone: 55% of songs positive, 5% neutral, 41% negative.
Most used words by Rainbow
- know (118)
- see (101)
- rock (97)
- love (93)
- night (90)
- roll (68)
- take (66)
- feel (64)
- away (56)
- long (54)
- eyes (53)
- come (48)
- way (47)
- time (46)
- one (45)
- live (43)
- run (41)
- home (38)
- let (38)
- nothing (38)
Signature phrases
- “live rock roll” (27)
- “long live rock” (26)
- “death alley driver” (16)
- “rock roll long” (16)
- “roll long live” (16)
- “rock roll rock” (15)
- “street dreams” (14)
- “nothing bad luck” (12)
- “starstruck nothing bad” (12)
- “ladys starstruck nothing” (12)
Colors in the lyrics
- black (25)
- silver (12)
- red (5)
- white (5)
- grey (2)
- blue (1)
Albums analyzed
- Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow (1975)
- Rising (1976)
- Long Live Rock ’n’ Roll (1978)
- Down to Earth (1979)
- Difficult to Cure (1981)
- Straight Between the Eyes (1982)
- Bent Out of Shape (1983)
- Stranger in Us All (1995)