The Animals — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 56 songs across 10 albums by The Animals. They use 1,095 unique words out of 5,623 (lexical richness MATTR 0.55), with an average of 100 content words per song. Emotional tone: 66% of songs positive, 4% neutral, 30% negative.
Most used words by The Animals
- baby (308)
- love (122)
- know (88)
- come (87)
- said (87)
- night (87)
- day (75)
- girl (61)
- help (61)
- want (57)
- one (54)
- back (52)
- see (46)
- time (44)
- good (44)
- right (41)
- home (39)
- bo (38)
- shake (38)
- alright (36)
Signature phrases
- “help girl help” (25)
- “hard times” (21)
- “seem enough seem” (16)
- “enough seem enough” (16)
- “bo diddley bo” (15)
- “diddley bo diddley” (15)
- “hit road jack” (12)
- “jack come back” (12)
- “road jack come” (12)
- “baby shake baby” (12)
Colors in the lyrics
- blue (31)
- white (5)
- green (5)
- grey (2)
- red (1)
- brown (1)
- silver (1)
- rose (1)
Albums analyzed
- The Animals (1964)
- The Animals (1964)
- The Animals on Tour (1965)
- Animal Tracks (1965)
- Animal Tracks (1965)
- Animalization (1966)
- Animalisms (1966)
- Animalism (1966)
- Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted (1977)
- Ark (1983)