The Rolling Stones — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 293 songs across 28 albums by The Rolling Stones. They use 4,149 unique words out of 27,620 (lexical richness MATTR 0.62), with an average of 94 content words per song. Emotional tone: 35% of songs positive, 43% neutral, 22% negative.
Most used words by The Rolling Stones
- baby (623)
- love (333)
- know (316)
- come (270)
- want (250)
- back (208)
- time (202)
- one (184)
- girl (174)
- away (173)
- let (164)
- little (163)
- way (158)
- take (156)
- say (151)
- make (149)
- hear (148)
- said (140)
- really (138)
- night (138)
Signature phrases
- “hitch hike hitch” (36)
- “hike hitch hike” (35)
- “come baby” (35)
- “come back” (30)
- “mr charm mr” (29)
- “charm mr charm” (29)
- “dance little sister” (26)
- “little sister dance” (26)
- “really hear” (25)
- “dance dance little” (23)
Colors in the lyrics
- blue (38)
- black (34)
- silver (25)
- red (21)
- gold (18)
- grey (14)
- white (13)
- brown (11)
Albums analyzed
- England’s Newest Hit Makers (1964)
- 12 × 5 (1964)
- The Rolling Stones No. 2 (1965)
- The Rolling Stones, Now! (1965)
- Out of Our Heads (1965)
- December’s Children (and Everybody’s) (1965)
- Aftermath (1966)
- Between the Buttons (1967)
- Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967)
- Beggars Banquet (1968)
- Let It Bleed (1969)
- Sticky Fingers (1971)
- Exile on Main St. (1972)
- Goats Head Soup (1973)
- It’s Only Rock ’n Roll (1974)
- Black and Blue (1976)
- Some Girls (1978)
- Emotional Rescue (1980)
- Tattoo You (1981)
- Undercover (1983)
- Dirty Work (1986)
- Steel Wheels (1989)
- Voodoo Lounge (1994)
- Bridges to Babylon (1997)
- A Bigger Bang (2005)
- Blue & Lonesome (2016)
- Hackney Diamonds (2023)
- Foreign Tongues (2026)