Sting — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 141 songs across 13 albums by Sting. They use 3,829 unique words out of 16,971 (lexical richness MATTR 0.76), with an average of 120 content words per song. Emotional tone: 60% of songs positive, 5% neutral, 35% negative.
Most used words by Sting
- love (343)
- day (140)
- one (139)
- heart (112)
- come (108)
- say (106)
- life (103)
- free (102)
- see (97)
- together (95)
- know (92)
- time (86)
- night (86)
- make (80)
- way (78)
- soul (78)
- find (76)
- world (72)
- take (71)
- baby (71)
Signature phrases
- “one day” (39)
- “free set free” (37)
- “rock steady rock” (35)
- “steady rock steady” (35)
- “heart beating heart” (34)
- “beating heart beating” (34)
- “soul cake” (27)
- “sacred love” (24)
- “head hung head” (22)
- “hung head hung” (22)
Colors in the lyrics
- red (33)
- black (22)
- rose (17)
- white (10)
- gold (7)
- blue (6)
- grey (6)
- green (3)
Albums analyzed
- The Dream of the Blue Turtles (1985)
- …Nothing Like the Sun (1987)
- The Soul Cages (1991)
- Mercury Falling (1996)
- Brand New Day (1999)
- Sacred Love (2003)
- Songs From the Labyrinth (2006)
- If on a Winter’s Night… (2009)
- Symphonicities (2010)
- 57th & 9th (2016)
- 44/876 (2018)
- The Bridge (2021)
- All We Get Is Life (2024)