Talking Heads — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 79 songs across 8 albums by Talking Heads. They use 2,010 unique words out of 8,760 (lexical richness MATTR 0.64), with an average of 111 content words per song. Emotional tone: 84% of songs positive, 1% neutral, 15% negative.
Most used words by Talking Heads
- love (122)
- world (115)
- say (90)
- move (85)
- hi (81)
- know (80)
- time (70)
- take (69)
- come (67)
- fa (60)
- night (58)
- mind (58)
- blind (57)
- little (57)
- people (57)
- see (57)
- right (57)
- want (56)
- run (55)
- baby (53)
Signature phrases
- “move world move” (20)
- “world move world” (20)
- “city find city” (16)
- “find city find” (16)
- “find city live” (16)
- “electric guitar” (15)
- “wild wild life” (14)
- “define divine define” (14)
- “puzzlin evidence” (14)
- “night long” (14)
Colors in the lyrics
- blue (9)
- gold (3)
- white (3)
- red (2)
- yellow (2)
- silver (1)
- black (1)
Albums analyzed
- Talking Heads: 77 (1977)
- More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978)
- Fear of Music (1979)
- Remain in Light (1980)
- Speaking in Tongues (1983)
- Little Creatures (1985)
- True Stories (1986)
- Naked (1988)