Vance Joy — Lyric Analysis

LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 38 songs across 3 albums by Vance Joy. They use 876 unique words out of 3,968 (lexical richness MATTR 0.63), with an average of 104 content words per song. Emotional tone: 92% of songs positive, 0% neutral, 8% negative.

Most used words by Vance Joy

1. ba (117)
2. know (94)
3. time (76)
4. way (74)
5. see (69)
6. love (62)
7. babe (50)
8. feel (48)
9. take (42)
10. home (40)
11. mind (38)
12. alone (36)
13. come (34)
14. one (33)
15. hmm (31)
16. light (31)
17. let (31)
18. say (28)
19. right (27)
20. find (27)

Signature phrases

• “feel love feel” (17)
• “love feel love” (13)
• “see light shine” (13)
• “first time” (12)
• “way history” (11)
• “shine know home” (10)
• “light shine know” (10)
• “hmm babe hmm” (9)
• “babe hmm babe” (9)
• “make look easy” (9)

Colors in the lyrics

• gold (6)
• red (4)
• white (4)
• blue (3)
• brown (2)
• olive (1)
• black (1)
• green (1)

Albums analyzed

• Dream Your Life Away (2014)
• Nation of Two (2018)
• In Our Own Sweet Time (2022)