This document summarizes a study analyzing trends in lyrics of hit pop songs from 1970 to 2009. The study involved collecting lyrics from various online sources, cleaning and consolidating the data, then using text mining and sentiment analysis techniques to analyze trends. Key findings included themes of heartbreak and love being most common, average song length peaking in the 80s-90s and declining since, and a shift towards more female artists in recent decades. Sentiment analysis classified songs as positive, negative or neutral. The hybrid model achieved the best accuracy at 88% for this task. Popular artists tended to have longevity, spanning multiple decades.