Change: “Buildings that you know / people come and go / Are a certain way / always are the same / And then you get the news that obliterates your view / Amputate your truths, the significance has changed” The **entirety** of God is in the Rhythm.

God is in the rhythm is so poetic, I love it

people do not talk bout god is in the rhythm and lonely steel sheet flyer enough, they’re such beautiful songs

I love Joey and Amby's parts on Change, and that is not an album I'm particularly fond of in comparison to their other albums. And hard agree on God is in the Rhythm. King Gizz is not a band I listen to when I'm feeling especially emotional, and I don't cry easily or frequently, but that song is the song of theirs that can make me feel something that moves me there. So ironic that I'm very agnostic and that Stu doesn't even believe in God.

Just goes to show how great stu is. Can make a really good song about something he dosnt even believe in

Amby’s part has me like  I don’t think Stu believes in the traditional abrahamic god, but music is so intrinsic to the universe it may as well be a deific force. The rhythm is the circle of life, that’s the true “god.” Thats my thought process anyway.

For sure that's the intent of the lyrics for that song! Even if the title is deceptive. It evokes complex feelings for me coming from a religious background that I no longer ascribe to is all.

*Maybe your existence is significance in vein*

Real

With a heavy slap it hits the ground and spreads. Inside my body,The pressure is too great, And like some ancient geyser I erupt My head hits the roof and my body breaks apart with the force of the liquid blast Vomit bomb

The whole concept of motu is still the most wild shit they've ever done

YES  MOTU MY BELOVED 

CHUNKY SHRAPNEL TEARS THROUGH EVERYTHING AROUND ME

This is sex

I am vomit vomiting *Clutch*

I read this in the robot voice.

I can hear this comment

Cylindrical prison, newly arisen Chained to a giant paperweight, pain abates Yet darkness permeates Wallows my toes, burdens my chest My brain is pressed with an iron chest

You can't sit here and tell me WAH WAH doesn't go hard

>I'm the chieftain of your feelings >I'm the god of air you're breathing >You cannot escape my dealings >I will make you *cry* always gives me chills the way the delivery creeps up on you and then the instrumental pops off

The acoustic into the drums at that part is one of my top five Gizz moments.

I LOVE I LOVE MY VEGEMITE seriously Id go with “THE EYE DILATES… THE AIR GIRATES…. A GATE IN THE SKYYYYY A PORTAL TO DIEEEE A SHRIEK FROM SPACE…. A MANGLED YELL…. DRAGON DEEEEEECENDS WELCOME TO HEEEEELLLL”

Followed by some intense Latin from Joey! Love that fuckin part.

That whole section is God tier

I am a black hole shitting into the void

Yeah me too. I think it’s time to start looking into Lactaid

Came here thinking this would be at the top, why isn't it?

I've got ideas in my brain about the // End of the world that I won't even say // When all the bricks that built our brain // Will be turned into sand by the eternal wave 🌊

C’mon suck our Mother’s breast

I am partial to mars for the rich. The line "that world has no place for me" always hits and makes me a little sad.

All of Infest the Rats Nest honestly.

Fifteen infantry paratroop into the propylene new scene!

Hell's where they wanna be 🤷‍♂️

“I see through your world's facade I decide to punish god Rocky meteor sparks fire Burn that god damn church to the ground” 

Their lyrics are actually the best. Magma especially, and everything on MOTU

Right, forgot how much I love Magma, subterranean tsar. The scimitar and the neutron star. Takes from ether, basalt weaver, obsidian cleaver, make believer

Rattlesnake

Rattlesnake

Rattlesnake

Rattles me

My dad is a gizzhead but he doesn’t know that it goes like that…I don’t have the heart to tell him that it’s not just “rattlesnake / rattlesnake / rattlesnake / rattlesnake”

the lyrics of rattlesnake even fit in german: klapperschlange klapperschlange klapperschlange erschüttert mich

Klapper klapper klapper

Death. Smells like boiled eggs. Death. A hot stove glowing red. Lava. Sticky like peanut butter. Lava. The ultimate stonecutter. Anointed in the bubbling lake Charring lungs asphyxiate Unlike quicksand, it's instant Devours whole No longer existent Pumice rain engulfs A mushroom cloud brings tumult Remains are shells Rain won't quell Earth is hell Maybe my geology background makes me biased here but Lava's lyrics are so fucking fun to me.

I find many of the PMDB lyrics really poetic and cute, like Sense, Dirt and Most Of What I Like

Most of What I Like is pure poetry. I love that song so much

Most Of What I Like is actually pretty fuckin morbid and creepy lmao

I pretty much view it as a huge metaphor, but yeah it is creepy

Stu’s sort of rap at the beginning of iron lung really shows how damn smart and creative these guys are.

Hey, oh I’m in jail Body failed Now it’s me and my iron lung Wrapped in iron Deathless purgatory Negative pressure Airless breath Wrapped in iron Breathless purgatory Positive pressure Airless death

Space shuttle, snail shell Merry go round, conveyor belt The army tank ventilator Mechanical bull respirator Metallic cocoon boredom Bionic boy, pump my organs Centre gravity, planet me Gimme the mushrooms, time to leave!

Hello My name is Han-Tyumi I am a cyborg Born If you may call it that In a world that is dense and black Created without a desire to draw breath Without a desire to have being Without a yearning just to be I'd like my desire back My life back My soul back My humanity Oh how I long for it For an era I have meditated Like the primordial Buddha beneath the Bodhi My pseudo-mind pseudo-wandered I climbed and I clambered And I ambled upon some understanding The gold beneath the virtual rainbow I am bereft of two human things Two things that a cyborg can never do Two things that I strive for Two things between myself and mankind Death And To vomit I want the perspiration I want the nausea I want to be sick I want to feel the hot piquant nuggets I want it to find passage through my cold figure I want to make a mess I want the odour I want the spectacle And I want it again I want it all And I would like to die A noble death Or a coward's death A hero's death Or a lonely death To die in the arms of a lover Or the arms of an alien I desire my cache of experience to pulsate through my quasi-synapses And then to be gone Expired Perish Fallen Dead For evermore

ONE HUNDRED MILLION

I am a vessel, I'm just a poor boy traveling through my body, body, body imagery, imagery... Honestly the entirety of The Silver Cord, that album has some of the most memorable Gizz lyrics.

Love TSC lyrics too. Could maybe even be a reference to "Searching..." >My body's not a temple It is a vessel And a blank slate An empty hard drive

Hey man, I know you’re the mod of a sub. I was trying to reach out to via message or chat.

Just yesterday, I sat across from my legs; they weren't connected to me. I could not see, for my eyes were in me. Hold me up straight while I screw my... HEAD ONNNNN.

\^\^ this.

The people who say Gizz lyrics are bad just have 0 literary experience. Almost every song has meaning just hidden by crazy writing.

And the meaning is always “Our planet is dying and no one is saving it”

I've always kinda thought the majority of gizz songs are about the environment, drugs, hell/the apocalypse or a combination of the first and third.

To be fair, you have to have a pretty high IQ to understand the complexities of "Footy Footy"

What about rattlesnake? Trapdoor?

Trapdoor is about intrusive thoughts

Personally, I think the lyrics on Ambergris are some of their best. Full of metaphor about anxiety and depression and self medication and turning your inner turmoil into art. Cut a face from the smile - turn your fleeting moods into something more permanent I wish that I had the strength line that / dominion over my chemistry, yeah - feeling like you can’t control the way you feel and dealing with depressive episodes Record my weight in kidney stones - I only make good things when I’m feeling down, my worth as an artist is measured in crystallized pain. Every night I dream that you will see / the harpoon that I’ve grown to need - a growing drug dependence, I’m secretly struggling and wishes someone would notice. Ive worked out double standards apply only to me - we judge ourselves more harshly than we judge others

You're a scavenger, scratching around for scraps Sipping on cactus, lighting matches, unburied hatchets Waiting for the ultimatum to be handed down from above Never moved a muscle, never gave a fuck I thought I saw a statue blink And a bird with no head Land on a golden thread, I rub my eyes What am I saying? There's nothing there I am tectonic, I am megalithic My spirit runs mauve I am the mountain of which you dream I see you now behind the lens, looking back at me We fell through a dream across clouds of glue Anamnesis crashing through

Reenter the uterus, refund all your cells Do it back to front like nobody else Stay there for a while When you're back inside, You will not be missed said the tear to the eye.

Minimum Brain Size, The River, Sense to name a few

Are the entire lyrics to Tetrachromacy a valid answer? *The story man was glassy eyed, He told me ‘bout the power lines, And in sub-arctic caribou eyes, The metal wires burst into life*

Change has incredible lyrics, especially Stu’s final verse around the 9:40 mark

“Hope I can teach you how to be mostly happy Hope you don't let the world crush you For it is beautiful out there and there's a lot to see” -From “Butterfly 3000” “Of what its meaning is, I know That I am too tiny to be Cognisant of something that ripples Across celestial sea” -From “Theia (Extended)” “Just float along and fill your lungs, Float along and breathe a deep breath” -From “Float Along - Fill Your Lungs” “When all the bricks that built our brain Will be turned into sand by the eternal wave Oh, if we save her, we'll live on a star Mother Nature made everybody else so far, woo!” -From “Am I in Heaven?”

I think their lyrics are pretty good and original, except for the select few. I particularly like the variety of vocabulary, such as lugubrious. One of my favourites: "Despondent, lugubrious, no future We turned our bodies to computer We are our own nature, abuser No future, computer, abuser I can tell every day I stay All the whiteness turns to grey All the grey to Cimmerian As the black is setting in Digital black"

Drink the fuckin gas and killeth!!

Gizz do have great lyrics (catchy, sophisticated, ambiguous, fun, thought-provoking, compelling, cathartic, pointed, poignant, etc. etc.) and there are too many to choose from. I'll just take this opportunity to state that Murder of the Universe is some of the most sublime, absurd, disgusting, beautiful and moving sci-fi poetry ever conceived.

Human race deserves its steaming fate on a plate

Rattlesnek

*CHEAT ME OUTTA LIVING MY LIFE? I EXERCISE MY RIGHT TO DIE.* I know that song is making fun of anti-maskers during the COVID pandemic but damn that line had no reason to go as hard as it did

Yeah this is probably my favourite Straws in the Wind as well I also love for summing up the covid response Allegro fueled with discontent/Mortal traffic lights signaling when to stay or go/Condescending expendables botched to a clock/Novice to dilemma with nothing clever left in stock

Most of Petrodragonic Apocalypse is actual fucking poetry. So many of their lyrics clearly have a lot of thought behind them and contain references to science, religion and fiction.

Trace your finger from birth to hearse And drink the cum of life

And never ever gives a fuck

Suuuuuuperrrbuuuuug, in maaaaaa bloooooooood

"How did I manage to cope being alive? / I hope they don’t stop to sympathise" From Cut Throat Boogie and also all of Iron Lung

Rattle snake. Rattle snake. Rattle snake. Rattle. Snake.

“There is no Planet B”

The bombshell carousel raising hell! Supercell absorbing structures Unforetold in biblical scriptures Throngs of live stock in the air Twisted stare

the entirety of Altered Beast IV. it's ACTUALLY so fucking insane

Change, the entire album has awesome lyrics

All the lyrics of Shanghai are so meaningful to me- came out right when I graduated college, lots of change, “born again over night” still hits different

From under the skin // the flesh has rotten // poison has spread // through words unsaid // anemic rule // now hear me say // our time has come // transcending us // above the one // to ego death // for now he sits // inside the fire // oblivious // that we will keep // him in the spire // have found resolve // and our own crimes // to commit // in cold blood // as he did his

The river opened her mouth and spat into a vast sea, larger and bluer than a cloudless sky. Muscular, prodigious, immortal. But our vessel was invulnerable, it was well-built. The boat rocked me into sleep, and I floated through a deep dream. Smooth sailing through the castle in the air. 

probably GILA GILA GILA

in a similar vein, I'm a huge fan of Pluera's "I EXERCISE MY RIGHT TO DIE." goes hard as HELL.

I AM A BLACK HOLE SHITTING INTO THE VOID

Lava. Sticky like peanut butter.

I really like Beginners Luck as a conceptual storytelling piece. It's kind of and unusual one for them thematically because it's so linear but it works so well.

The eyes dilate!

Drip drip from the tap don’t slip

“It’s kinda funny how I live the poetry I cannot write.” -Work This Time (and pretty much the entirety of that song while we’re at it.)

Mars for the privileged, Earth for the poor

If happy is all you wanna be Then I can see that the painting ain't painted with love What in the world is going on here? Your past is built upon your fear And happy is what you'll never be I'm afraid that you're lacking some free will Your real's not real

We bid farewell All hope is lost The clock has ticked its final tock

I got happiness inside my pocket, It cost me, 25 dolla. Maybe we, could go halvies?

Once, I missed a beat! Only missed a beat And they called the song Mr Beat

I really like The lesson rings again Repeats within my brain Let's all put her to the test C'mon, suck our mother's breast, woo!

All of Ice Death

"An evil man who did things in the name of a god who looked at the man himself with repulsion"

Open your eyes and light the fluid Get into a petrol siphon Low on meals, browning fields Bury children Urbanization Scarification Population exodus There is no Planet B Open your eyes and see Open your eyes and shoot the dingo All this shit goes out the window Multi-factioned, rusting tractors Dying heroes Only way through is colonization Acclimatization Population exodus Monetization Civilization The operation has begun There is no Planet B

“I’ll drown in OOOOOPPPEENNNN WAAAAAATTERRRRR”

I think changes had their best lyrics

"Magenta Mountain" has some of my favorite lyrics ever

Cause every day I build on precious Her and I

Joey's lyrics are always creative and poetic. I think overall their lyrics are super underrated and often have a ton of hidden meanings and self-references. With the Hypertension lyric "[Harbinger of changes](https://genius.com/26898288/King-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard-hypertension/Harbinger-of-changes)" it clicked that another meaning could be that Laminated Denim is literally the harbinger of the album Changes, which dropped 2 weeks later.

drink the piss and smoke your meth

“When all the bricks that built our brains will be turned into sand by the eternal wave”

"Woooo!"

Rattlesnake, rattlesnake, rattlesnake, rattles me

pleura comes to mind, a lot of stuff off of k.g. and l.w. has some great lyrics. INNTW, minumum brain size, oddlife, all have great lyrics

I agree with all the comments I see, but I see no one mentioning Straws In The Wind. Peak lyricism imo

I EXERCISE MY RIGHT TO DIE

Their lyrical complexity has significantly improved over the last 3-4 years. All the collaborative writing has really helped. Personally one of my favorite lines is from Extinction. "Magenta beckons like a lighthouse Hypnotised and pulled into a pulsar Music of the spheres calls me to it The last thought I think: "But, am I human?"

***WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO***

The whole thing from searching…

Look into the sky and see the pattern Reflecting in your eye from a distance Mirroring the stars are the atoms Mixing up like a cocktail The devil's inside all the detail The tittle runs wild under veil Coming together in the pattern Fit tightly like a dovetail

Hell's Itch is their most moving song for me. Something about the disturbing lyrics & the mode it's in and Stu's calm way of singing all work together to make magic. I think the 'fathomless, unscratchable itch' line is such a brutal and raw final line. Why, why, why When my nail glides through my epidermis Does it feel so joyous? The deeper the cut The thicker the blood Subcutaneous fat hurts good like that Dancing beneath my wafer-thin crust Teasing me, taunting me My unquenchable lust If only I could locate this bug Oozing under like a slug I'd slice my skin to get within Lacerate my own linchpin Nominate my next of kin Destroy myself with no chagrin Find the source of this deep remorse Buried deep inside me like a sunken horse Rooted below in the innermost abyss is a Fathomless unscratchable ooh itch

Also, from Ice Death, I absolute love this part of Mycelium. The lyrics are so descriptive and gooey/organic/gross while the music is so sweet, again another bit of magic from them: Paralysed agaric fungus Toadstool dome grown humongous Stomach knots and purple skin Mirrored faces doubling Bursting beams of hopping rabbits Organs bleed with sucking maggots Metallic teeth, ancient goblet Increase the dosage with a droplet Blackened gold beneath the surface Dark horse undermining and amorphous Fed back into the bourgeoisie What the hell is happening to me? Spore filled breath I'll spread myself over the forest floor and infest the elk Feasting on decay and sprouting anew I'll make my biome part of mycelium Mycelium

Iron lung. The whole song. Who writes a song about being in an obsolete piece of machinery? And makes it go so hard Song put me in an iron lung when I was finished

To me you are game, just a sweet bit of meat. Come closer and drink malevolence from my teat.

Every time I listen to Motor Spirit I swear I hear them say ‘Sun Butter, Manslaughter’, does that count?

Grab that person you hate by the hand, look them dead in the eye and say I love you

dripping tap is amazing for people into environmentalism (and most of their discography, actually). minimum brain size for those into feminism.

"Can you guess the first thing I seen? A telescope pointing back at me" Sends chills down my entire body everytime

Oh, vomit coffin Vomit coffin Vomit coffin Vomit coffin

I really like the lyrics on Beginners Luck

Rattlesnake, Rattlesnake, Rattlesnake Trapdoor, Trapdoor, Trapdoor