The Police — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 53 songs across 5 albums by The Police. They use 1,387 unique words out of 5,076 (lexical richness MATTR 0.59), with an average of 96 content words per song. Emotional tone: 57% of songs positive, 6% neutral, 38% negative.
Most used words by The Police
- world (87)
- stand (87)
- lonely (65)
- one (62)
- man (45)
- want (45)
- day (44)
- walking (43)
- born (41)
- life (41)
- feel (39)
- away (35)
- time (35)
- light (32)
- keep (32)
- another (31)
- make (30)
- take (29)
- say (28)
- little (28)
Signature phrases
- “put red light” (25)
- “roxanne put red” (25)
- “one world one” (22)
- “next want next” (22)
- “want next want” (22)
- “light roxanne put” (22)
- “red light roxanne” (22)
- “stand losing stand” (22)
- “losing stand losing” (22)
- “world one world” (21)
Colors in the lyrics
- red (27)
- black (9)
- blue (3)
- gold (1)
- brown (1)
- grey (1)
- pink (1)
- white (1)
Albums analyzed
- Outlandos d’Amour (1978)
- Reggatta de Blanc (1979)
- Zenyattà Mondatta (1980)
- Ghost in the Machine (1981)
- Synchronicity (1983)