The Smiths — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 40 songs across 4 albums by The Smiths. They use 1,141 unique words out of 3,582 (lexical richness MATTR 0.60), with an average of 90 content words per song. Emotional tone: 48% of songs positive, 0% neutral, 52% negative.
Most used words by The Smiths
- know (65)
- love (51)
- said (40)
- want (39)
- one (34)
- life (33)
- tonight (32)
- really (29)
- take (26)
- head (26)
- home (24)
- world (23)
- say (23)
- die (22)
- think (21)
- see (21)
- long (21)
- girls (21)
- behind (20)
- alone (19)
Signature phrases
- “mother feel soil” (10)
- “feel soil falling” (10)
- “soil falling head” (10)
- “walk home alone” (9)
- “next world next” (8)
- “world next world” (8)
- “bigger others girls” (8)
- “girls bigger others” (8)
- “seen happen peoples” (8)
- “happen peoples lives” (8)
Colors in the lyrics
- rose (5)
- white (2)
- grey (1)
- black (1)
Albums analyzed
- The Smiths (1984)
- Meat Is Murder (1985)
- The Queen Is Dead (1986)
- Strangeways, Here We Come (1987)