Supertramp — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 96 songs across 11 albums by Supertramp. They use 1,901 unique words out of 8,945 (lexical richness MATTR 0.74), with an average of 93 content words per song. Emotional tone: 67% of songs positive, 0% neutral, 33% negative.
Most used words by Supertramp
- know (240)
- way (134)
- love (125)
- say (119)
- see (97)
- right (87)
- time (86)
- long (81)
- tell (79)
- life (70)
- make (70)
- feel (66)
- better (61)
- come (61)
- give (57)
- little (56)
- one (55)
- day (55)
- try (54)
- find (53)
Signature phrases
- “long way home” (23)
- “takin long way” (20)
- “long way turnin” (19)
- “way turnin takin” (19)
- “turnin takin long” (19)
- “know meaning know” (17)
- “meaning know meaning” (16)
- “live love” (15)
- “bloody right” (14)
- “goes blindness goes” (13)
Colors in the lyrics
- blue (6)
- gold (6)
- grey (4)
- silver (3)
- brown (2)
- gray (1)
- red (1)
- black (1)
Albums analyzed
- Supertramp (1970)
- Indelibly Stamped (1971)
- Crime of the Century (1974)
- Crisis? What Crisis? (1975)
- Even in the Quietest Moments… (1977)
- Breakfast in America (1979)
- “…Famous Last Words…” (1982)
- Brother Where You Bound (1985)
- Free as a Bird (1987)
- Some Things Never Change (1997)
- Slow Motion (2002)