System of a Down — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 61 songs across 5 albums by System of a Down. They use 1,501 unique words out of 7,089 (lexical richness MATTR 0.49), with an average of 116 content words per song. Emotional tone: 13% of songs positive, 36% neutral, 51% negative.
Most used words by System of a Down
- pogo (99)
- everybody (72)
- know (70)
- bit (62)
- die (61)
- right (56)
- banana (56)
- eat (53)
- want (51)
- feel (50)
- hollywood (49)
- away (47)
- terracotta (47)
- sky (44)
- life (43)
- need (41)
- fuck (41)
- little (40)
- man (39)
- boom (39)
Signature phrases
- “old school hollywood” (26)
- “betcha know” (21)
- “trying build prison” (20)
- “therapy advertising causes” (18)
- “therapy therapy advertising” (18)
- “spirit moves things” (18)
- “fight heathens fight” (18)
- “heathens fight heathens” (18)
- “moves things spirit” (16)
- “things spirit moves” (16)
Colors in the lyrics
- blue (7)
- green (6)
- olive (6)
- red (3)
- black (3)
- gold (2)
- gray (2)
- yellow (1)
Albums analyzed
- System of a Down (1998)
- Toxicity (2001)
- Steal This Album! (2002)
- Mezmerize (2005)
- Hypnotize (2005)