Genius Meanings
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Dragon
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[Chorus] / PetroDragonic Apocalypse / PetroDragonic Apocalypse / [Verse 1] / Flapping wings, weaving through / Crocodile obsolete / Flattened raze, spraying flames / Blood curdle
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flamethrower
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[Verse 1] / Depths of hell, dragon rise / Death in mind, smoking eyes / Malice gleam, deadly guise / Futile to hypothesize / Soul blackened by the dark arts / Strike a fear in
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Supercell
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[Verse 1] / Murder waits inside the wedge / Sharpening its sickle edge / Spading forks, increasing spin / Screaming tin / Ruby slippers, tap ya heels / In a spiral, orange peel
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Intrasport
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Originally described as “celestial disco-funk,” this song seems to be about someone disassociating, only to wake up in a bloodlust.
‘Intrasport’ actually isn’t a word. However, if
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Motor Spirit
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[Verse 1] / Oh holy rabble, we art ensnared / To quiver liketh rippled air / Diocese of did melt sand / Worship with thy chroming hand / Coal-black cloud horizon / Maketh landborn
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Yours
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[Chorus] / Did you know he's yours? / He's the wheel you steer / Tomorrow, still yours / You can lean on him forever / [Verse 1] / Your man in the sky / Your bird's lullaby / Your
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Robot Stop
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The opening song on King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s 2016 album, Nonagon Infinity. Sonically exhilarating, this project is meant to be played in a continuous loop, bridging the
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Cellophane
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The third track on I’m In Your Mind Fuzz and in the I’m In Your Mind medley, cellophane is about 3D movies and the red/blue cellophane glasses that early 3D movies utilized
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – 2.02 Killer Year
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[Intro] / Woo! / [Chorus] / It's coming up, beach boys / It's gonna be a lot of fun / The water's getting deeper / It's gonna drown everyone / It's coming up, beach boys / The
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Magma
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[Verse] / Magma, fire bagwan / The all, the one and the none / Lifts rock, makes stuff / The sleeping hawk, the ticking clock / Hair of child, skin of bone / Gift of flesh
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Hot Water
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The 6th track on I’m In Your Mind Fuzz, Hot Water features a flute motif which is later used in “Robot Stop” from Nonagon Infinity. This is often used as a transition between the
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Hypertension
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[Verse 1] / Like a red herring, laminated denim / A note outside the scale from beyond the pale / Unwitting host, inside-out ghost / Harbinger of changes, destiny exchanges / Time
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Mars for the Rich
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Inspired by current efforts to colonize Mars, “Mars For The Rich” is about how escaping the environmental disasters of Earth will only be possible for the rich due to the many
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Beginner's Luck
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This song is the first song on Gumboot Soup: the fifth and final album the band released in 2017. The song is about gambling for the first time, and the narrator is telling the
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Gila Monster
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“Gila Monster” is the first single off of PetroDragonic Apocalypse.
The track was first revealed during the band’s European leg of their tour. Although the track was played at
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Greenhouse Heat Death
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[Refrain] / Heat death / Bake rot / Torrid / Char crop / Heat death / Hard yolk / See flames / Smell smoke / [Verse 1] / My house is green / You know what I mean / My house was
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Her And I (Slow Jam 2)
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[Intro] / I had to put up some kind of a fight / [Verse 1] / It wouldn't hurt to give you more, my love / The sun shone through into a wave of thought / It said the one I'll wed
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Head On/Pill
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“Head On/Pill” is a psychedelic journey that incorporates elements of kraut-rock and psych-rock masterfully. The song is an amalgamation of two parts, as the psychedelic mellowness
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Blame It On The Weather
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[Chorus] / Go on then, blame it on the weather / Go on then, blame it on the weather / Go on then, blame it on the weather / Go on then, blame it on the weather / Go on then, blame
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Red Smoke
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Red smoke / The wool's been pulled / The dust won't settle / Red smoke / The fools still rule / The screaming kettles / We're numb to the norm / Ever year it's clear that it ain't
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Satan Speeds Up
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[Verse 1] / You brought us to your gift of generosity / And all our silly games wreak havoc on your soils / [Chorus 1] / When I stop to think of all that / [Verse 2] / Every life
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – The Lord of Lightning
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[Verse 1] / Lord of Lightning shifts his gaze / Points his strong finger our way / Electricity escapes / Leaves destruction in his wake / [Interlude: The Reticent Raconteur
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Am I In Heaven?
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[Verse 1] / 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 / Oh
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – It's Got Old
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[Intro] / (One, two, three, four) / [Verse 1] / Well I'm always saying I'm sorry / You're always saying you're broke / But I'll keep my hands on the steering wheel / If you keep
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Boogieman Sam
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[Verse 1] / Well, up jumped the boogieman / He ate mumma's babies / And shot the policeman / And went down to the nightclub / And shocked all the patrons / Boogie, boogie, boogie
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Dirt
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[Verse 1] / Handshakes and bitter rows / Are the common conjecture / I can dissect anything / And save the skin for later / I know it's just a time / And things will get better
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – This Thing
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[Verse 1] / Well, I fake a lot of symptoms to be a different person / I try to listen / I try to be primed for a reason to go back to sleep / That's not to say there's no relief
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Witchcraft
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[Verse 1] / In the fields once green and gold / Where the summer's breeze was bold / A supercell rages and roils / Swirling vortex, a bubble boils / Witchcraft / [Verse 2] / So
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – The Cruel Millennial
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[Verse 1] / Underestimated technology / I'm addicted to tablet screens / No escaping battleground PUBG / Computer games ain't for me / [Chorus] / Can't relate face to face with
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Homeless Man In Adidas
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Homeless Man In Adidas is a quiet, peaceful song about a homeless man and the life he lives. Throughout the song, the homeless man focuses on the positives of his life and his
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – The Balrog
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[Refrain] / Balrog, balrog / Balrog, balrog / Balrog, balrog, yep! / [Chorus] / You made the atom split / It caused a massive rift / And he came screaming through / Here to bite
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Crying
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[Verse 1] / Came in my window crying / Said that she's sick of all his lying about me / I said I ain't got time for her / I'm gonna close the door when I go walking / [Refrain
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Mirage City
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[Lyric transcription in progress, i'm working on it but some of these are unclear] / There's a place I wanna go / 'cause my Mum and Pa, they fight at home / And though my feet may
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Extinction (Extended Mix)
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[Chorus] / I can see everything / I can be in the music / I can see everything / I can be in the music / [Verse 1: Stu Mackenzie] / Knocking on extinction's door / Prisoner of
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Cold Cadaver
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[Verse 1] / Dark and cold / Out my front window / I can hear her say / From two miles away / [Chorus] / “This can’t be over, can’t be over” / Heard her before / Knocking at my
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Most Of What I Like
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[Verse 1] / Most of what I like / Is given to me by / The one that I love / Bears the onus every time / Technically I don't deserve / To live this kind of life / Perturbed at what
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (Ft. Mild High Club) – You Can Be Your Silhouette
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[Verse 1] / When you make time / To clear the cobwebs off your mind / You may find yourself unwind / When all the ticking stops dead / You may find your time instead / And you can
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Trapdoor
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[Chorus] / Trapdoor, trapdoor, the trapdoor's a trap! / Trapdoor, trapdoor, the trapdoor's a trap! / Trapdoor, trapdoor, the trapdoor's a trap! / Trapdoor, trapdoor, the trapdoor's
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Deserted Dunes Welcome Weary Feet
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[Verse 1] / Deserted dunes welcome weary feet / Feel euphoric, Polygondwanaland / And so novel, Polygondwanaland / Prehistoric, Polygondwanaland / Living fossil, Polygondwanaland
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Exploding Suns
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[Verse 1: Stu Mackenzie, Ambrose Kenny-Smith] / Exploding golden sun (Bursting radiation) / Get on your feet and run (For the shelter) / A change is gonna come (Eight minutes and
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – I'm Sleepin' In
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This song was placed near the end of Gumboot Soup, (the last of the 5 albums King Gizzard had promised to release in 2017), so it’s likely to be about Stu—and the band—feeling
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Converge
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[Verse 1: Stu Mackenzie] / Lo, a sight most dire and bleak / From yon celestial perch doth speak / The earth shake, the earth quiver / As dazzling twisted pillars deliver / [Verse
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Time = Fate
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One of the few songs written and sang by one of the band’s guitarists, Cook Craig, also known as Pipe-Eye.
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – K.G.L.W (L.W.)
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[Chorus] / K.G.L.W / K.G.L.W / K.G.L.W / K.G.L.W / K.G.L.W / K.G.L.W / [Refrain] / When the claws come out / Cage me too / I'm an animal too / Woo! / [Chorus] / K.G.L.W / K.G.L.W
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Swan Song (Extended Mix)
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[Verse 1: Stu Mackenzie] / Drink your booze and smoke your weed / Drain the vein and bleed for me / The ground is swaying beneath your feet / You can't see shit and you can't
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Vegemite
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“Vegemite” is the lead single of King Gizzard’s 4th studio album, Oddments.
The song details the love for vegemite that lead vocalist Stu Mackenzie has.
“I recorded vegemite at
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Polygondwanaland
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[Verse 1] / Goodbye kinsman, polygon / I'm goin' abroad, gondwana / Drift until I, polygon / Get to my stop, gondwanaland / [Pre-Chorus 1] / Grand and never been / Seen by man
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – The Wholly Ghost
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[Verse] / First I'll tie a knot / And then I'll ring it up / What I want the most / I will be a ghost / [Verse] / First I'll tie a knot / And then I'll ring it up / What I want the
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