Roxy Music — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 71 songs across 8 albums by Roxy Music. They use 1,847 unique words out of 5,213 (lexical richness MATTR 0.79), with an average of 73 content words per song. Emotional tone: 75% of songs positive, 0% neutral, 25% negative.
Most used words by Roxy Music
- love (95)
- cry (70)
- take (68)
- know (58)
- time (58)
- high (57)
- rain (52)
- away (42)
- life (39)
- see (37)
- another (37)
- night (30)
- way (29)
- say (25)
- dance (25)
- around (24)
- mind (23)
- world (22)
- one (21)
- find (21)
Signature phrases
- “away heartache dance” (9)
- “dance away heartache” (9)
- “heartache dance away” (9)
- “high another high” (9)
- “another high another” (9)
- “love drug” (9)
- “eight miles high” (8)
- “stay high time” (8)
- “dreamhome heartaches heartaches” (8)
- “heartaches dreamhome heartaches” (8)
Colors in the lyrics
- blue (13)
- rose (5)
- gold (4)
- grey (4)
- black (3)
- silver (3)
- red (3)
- gray (2)
Albums analyzed
- Roxy Music (1972)
- For Your Pleasure (1973)
- Stranded (1973)
- Country Life (1974)
- Siren (1975)
- Manifesto (1979)
- Flesh + Blood (1980)
- Avalon (1982)