Glimmer Wire

Words of the Stones

Explore the vocabulary behind the songs.

baby: 449 occurrences in 91 lyric textstake: 119 occurrences in 55 lyric textsdon't: 411 occurrences in 122 lyric textshear: 119 occurrences in 37 lyric textsgot: 333 occurrences in 90 lyric textsnight: 123 occurrences in 51 lyric textsget: 328 occurrences in 89 lyric textsone: 132 occurrences in 55 lyric textsno: 279 occurrences in 93 lyric textsnot: 137 occurrences in 54 lyric textswell: 234 occurrences in 83 lyric textsway: 138 occurrences in 52 lyric textsnow: 206 occurrences in 74 lyric textsaway: 144 occurrences in 39 lyric textscan't: 199 occurrences in 80 lyric textstime: 149 occurrences in 72 lyric textslike: 199 occurrences in 84 lyric textswant: 157 occurrences in 56 lyric textslove: 193 occurrences in 82 lyric textscome: 167 occurrences in 72 lyric textsknow: 187 occurrences in 71 lyric textsback: 171 occurrences in 50 lyric textsgo: 185 occurrences in 68 lyric textsnever: 177 occurrences in 62 lyric texts

Top 30 words

Common words hidden. Open a word to see up to five contributing songs. The interactive view lists every contributor.

  1. 1. baby449

    Showing 5 of 91 contributing lyric texts.

  2. 2. don't411

    Showing 5 of 122 contributing lyric texts.

  3. 3. got333

    Showing 5 of 90 contributing lyric texts.

  4. 4. get328

    Showing 5 of 89 contributing lyric texts.

  5. 5. no279

    Showing 5 of 93 contributing lyric texts.

  6. 6. well234

    Showing 5 of 83 contributing lyric texts.

  7. 7. now206

    Showing 5 of 74 contributing lyric texts.

  8. 8. can't199

    Showing 5 of 80 contributing lyric texts.

  9. 8. like199

    Showing 5 of 84 contributing lyric texts.

  10. 10. love193

    Showing 5 of 82 contributing lyric texts.

  11. 11. know187

    Showing 5 of 71 contributing lyric texts.

  12. 12. go185

    Showing 5 of 68 contributing lyric texts.

  13. 13. never177

    Showing 5 of 62 contributing lyric texts.

  14. 14. back171

    Showing 5 of 50 contributing lyric texts.

  15. 15. come167

    Showing 5 of 72 contributing lyric texts.

  16. 16. want157

    Showing 5 of 56 contributing lyric texts.

  17. 17. time149

    Showing 5 of 72 contributing lyric texts.

  18. 18. away144

    Showing 5 of 39 contributing lyric texts.

  19. 19. way138

    Showing 5 of 52 contributing lyric texts.

  20. 20. not137

    Showing 5 of 54 contributing lyric texts.

  21. 21. one132

    Showing 5 of 55 contributing lyric texts.

  22. 22. night123

    Showing 5 of 51 contributing lyric texts.

  23. 23. hear119

    Showing 5 of 37 contributing lyric texts.

  24. 23. take119

    Showing 5 of 55 contributing lyric texts.

  25. 25. think118

    Showing 5 of 44 contributing lyric texts.

  26. 26. feel112

    Showing 5 of 34 contributing lyric texts.

  27. 27. right109

    Showing 5 of 62 contributing lyric texts.

  28. 28. little108

    Showing 5 of 34 contributing lyric texts.

  29. 29. ain't107

    Showing 5 of 57 contributing lyric texts.

  30. 29. make107

    Showing 5 of 53 contributing lyric texts.

235 reviewed lyric texts · 462 indexed words with common words hidden

Selected word

baby

Occurrences
449
Lyric texts
91

Contributing songs

Showing 5 of 91 contributing lyric texts.

One reviewed lyric text counted once. Repeated words included.
No full lyrics are reproduced.
Lyric sources: Keno. 235 of 288 linked pages included; the rest await review.

Counting method

Only reviewed lyric text is counted—not titles, credits or navigation. Duplicate recordings of the same song are not separate texts.

Capitalization and apostrophes are normalized. Contractions and accents are preserved. Repeated words and choruses count as printed.

“I,” “and” and other common or filler words are hidden by default. You can show them again without changing the underlying counts. Album filters select contributing texts; a text linked to more than one album still counts once. Album families include associated bonus-edition tracks, not just original running orders.

These are counts from our reviewed sources, not claims about every song or every performed version. Each contributing song links to its lyric source.

This explorer indexes frequent words across the reviewed collection and each album—not the complete vocabulary. Each indexed word includes every occurrence in the reviewed texts selected. 235 of 288 linked source pages are included; 53 remain outside the reviewed collection. Missing texts are not counted as zero. Word sizes use a bounded emphasis scale; the ranked list gives exact counts.

Method: lyric-words-v1 · Common-word filter: en-common-v1
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