[Verse 1] For seventeen years the bombs kept coming Three lives lost and twenty-three hurt The FBI searched but found no traces No fingerprints left in the dirt Then came a demand, thirty-five thousand words "Publish my manifesto," the bomber declared Little did he know his writing would betray him In patterns and phrases that linguists could snare [Chorus] Words are fingerprints you cannot hide N-grams count the sequences inside Naive Bayes will classify your style Stylometric algorithms compile Every writer has a signature true In the frequencies of words they use Cool-headed logicians gave him away Linguistic patterns solved the case that day [Verse 2] The algorithms started their analysis Counting word pairs and triplets too N-gram frequencies paint a picture Of how each author's phrases flow through Function words and sentence structures Create a fingerprint unique and clear But sometimes human eyes can spot it When familiar phrases appear [Chorus] Words are fingerprints you cannot hide N-grams count the sequences inside Naive Bayes will classify your style Stylometric algorithms compile Every writer has a signature true In the frequencies of words they use Cool-headed logicians gave him away Linguistic patterns solved the case that day [Bridge] David Kaczynski read the manifesto Recognized his brother's voice Those distinctive turns of phrase he'd heard Left him with a painful choice The algorithms pointed to the truth But family bond confirmed the lead Ted Kaczynski was the Unabomber Human insight helped the machines succeed [Verse 3] Now we know with ninety percent accuracy Authors can be identified By word distributions and syntax patterns That consciousness cannot hide Stylometric science has advanced Since that breakthrough long ago Every text reveals its writer's secrets In the mathematical flow [Final Chorus] Words are fingerprints you cannot hide N-grams count the sequences inside Naive Bayes will classify your style Stylometric algorithms compile Every writer has a signature true In the frequencies of words they use Cool-headed logicians gave him away Linguistic patterns solved the case that day [Outro] When mysteries need solving today Let the algorithms find the way In every word and every line Lives a signature by design
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