Van Halen — Lyric Analysis

LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 110 songs across 12 albums by Van Halen. They use 2,351 unique words out of 11,736 (lexical richness MATTR 0.63), with an average of 107 content words per song. Emotional tone: 78% of songs positive, 1% neutral, 21% negative.

Most used words by Van Halen

1. love (235)
2. baby (228)
3. come (150)
4. one (135)
5. know (132)
6. want (102)
7. ow (96)
8. say (95)
9. good (92)
10. time (89)
11. way (80)
12. take (78)
13. woo (78)
14. right (78)
15. see (77)
16. ha (76)
17. round (75)
18. control (73)
19. little (70)
20. tell (69)

Signature phrases

• “loss control loss” (59)
• “control loss control” (59)
• “pretty woman” (32)
• “want one want” (31)
• “one want one” (29)
• “ice cream man” (19)
• “dream another dream” (17)
• “baby come come” (15)
• “another dream dream” (15)
• “dream dream another” (15)

Colors in the lyrics

• blue (27)
• black (13)
• red (12)
• white (5)
• silver (4)
• purple (2)
• tan (2)
• pink (1)

Albums analyzed

• Van Halen (1978)
• Van Halen II (1979)
• Women and Children First (1980)
• Fair Warning (1981)
• Diver Down (1982)
• 1984 (1984)
• 5150 (1986)
• OU812 (1988)
• For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge (1991)
• Balance (1995)
• Van Halen III (1998)
• A Different Kind of Truth (2012)