Simon & Garfunkel — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 55 songs across 5 albums by Simon & Garfunkel. They use 1,705 unique words out of 4,361 (lexical richness MATTR 0.75), with an average of 79 content words per song. Emotional tone: 78% of songs positive, 2% neutral, 20% negative.
Most used words by Simon & Garfunkel
- lie (198)
- come (43)
- love (40)
- bye (40)
- know (35)
- tell (34)
- joy (34)
- yes (33)
- de (30)
- home (27)
- time (26)
- one (24)
- long (24)
- old (20)
- life (20)
- man (19)
- night (19)
- around (18)
- gone (18)
- said (17)
Signature phrases
- “bye bye love” (12)
- “pretty peggy” (8)
- “tell mountain” (8)
- “joy joy heart” (7)
- “brought joy joy” (7)
- “mrs robinson” (7)
- “richard cory” (7)
- “bridge troubled water” (6)
- “number wonder engines” (6)
- “bye love bye” (6)
Colors in the lyrics
- brown (11)
- green (8)
- silver (3)
- gray (2)
- blue (2)
- rose (1)
- lime (1)
- white (1)
Albums analyzed
- Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964)
- Sounds of Silence (1966)
- Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966)
- Bookends (1968)
- Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)