These are lyrics from many or Taylor Swift's songs. They were scraped from lyrics123.net by Rahul Bhargava in 2014.

Here is a picture of the words used most often in your document. Words used more often are bigger, and ones used less often are smaller. This picture, called a "word cloud", is helpful to get a sense of the most used words in a document.

Top Words

Word Frequency
you 2053
i 1606
and 1334
the 1315
to 828
a 717
me 703
in 502
it 488
my 475
your 458
that 417
on 385
be 353
i'm 351
all 345
but 333
of 332
know 326
when 293

Bigrams

bigram Frequency
and i 204
in the 174
on the 119
â â 109
do do 106
i don't 104
and you 90
i was 87
i know 85
the way 80
but i 76
when you 72
you were 71
you can 70
you and 67
to me 67
that you 64
oh oh 63
what you 62
ã â 61

Trigrams

trigram Frequency
do do do 100
â ã â 58
ã â â 54
â â â 54
la la la 42
i don't know 37
oh oh oh 33
you belong with 33
the way i 30
i don't wanna 28
i loved you 27
belong with me 26
you and i 25
who you are 25
you're still an 25
still an innocent 25
said forever and 24
forever and always 24
it rains when 24
rains when you're 24

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