The Beatles — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 176 songs across 18 albums by The Beatles. They use 2,095 unique words out of 13,140 (lexical richness MATTR 0.54), with an average of 75 content words per song. Emotional tone: 27% of songs positive, 64% neutral, 9% negative.
Most used words by The Beatles
- love (358)
- know (255)
- want (171)
- come (148)
- see (142)
- girl (133)
- baby (132)
- time (131)
- one (109)
- tell (103)
- back (99)
- say (97)
- little (96)
- long (93)
- good (92)
- let (92)
- said (87)
- home (86)
- day (84)
- man (83)
Signature phrases
- “number nine number” (37)
- “nine number nine” (36)
- “doctor robert” (31)
- “rock roll music” (21)
- “wait minute wait” (21)
- “minute wait minute” (21)
- “mr postman” (21)
- “little girl” (20)
- “good day sunshine” (18)
- “long time” (18)
Colors in the lyrics
- yellow (30)
- blue (28)
- black (16)
- silver (9)
- green (7)
- red (6)
- white (2)
- navy (1)
Albums analyzed
- Please Please Me (1963)
- With The Beatles (1963)
- Introducing… The Beatles (1964)
- Meet The Beatles! (1964)
- Twist and Shout (1964)
- The Beatles’ Second Album (1964)
- The Beatles’ Long Tall Sally (1964)
- Something New (1964)
- Beatles for Sale (1964)
- Beatles ’65 (1964)
- Beatles VI (1965)
- Rubber Soul (1965)
- Yesterday and Today (1966)
- Revolver (1966)
- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
- The Beatles (1968)
- Abbey Road (1969)
- Let It Be (1970)