This e-book collects all lyrics from the Australian band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard.
I started this project in June 2025 because I wanted to read Gizz lyrics on my e-book reader while listening to their music. The included songs are grouped by album, and albums are added in chronological order (oldest first.) There is also a song index at the end of the document that lists all songs in alphabetical order regardless of album, and a word index that references selected words that are reoccuring throughout the lyrics.
You can download the latest version of the e-book in the following formats. EPUB and MOBI should work on most e-book reader devices.
Alternatively, head to the Releases page to download the latest or an earlier version.
If you want to read the EPUB in a web browser, try this website: https://epub.tools/reader
This project inspired a little browser game where you need to guess songs from random lyrics lines. It is hosted on GitHub:
https://zykure.github.io/what-the-gizz/
All artwork and lyrics are copyright by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and the respective authors.
See kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com for details.
You can build the e-book yourself from the sources in this repository. Make sure you have the following requirements.
- TexLive or MiKTeX installation with TeX4ht / TeX4ebook support
- LaTeX packages:
geometry, parskip, setspace, relsize, CrimsonPro, fontenc, inputenc, imakeidx, tex4ebook, ifthen, fancyhdr, titlesec, contour, ulem, nowidow, needspace, lastpage, datetime, graphicx, xcolor, hyperref- The
indexing4htpackage from https://github.com/michal-h21/helpers4ht is included here
- The
- Xindy (for indexing support with TeX4ht)
- Calibre (to produce MOBI format for Kindle devices)
- HTML Tidy (for cleaning up HTML files)
Ubuntu one-liner:
sudo apt install texlive-extra texlive-extra-utils xindy calibre tidyDownload the sources via git clone or by downloading a ZIP archive.
Then, simply run the build script build.sh (Linux) or build.bat (Windows).
This should produce the PDF result from LaTeX, and the EPUB/MOBI converted result using TeX4ht.
A script is included that extracts all lyrics from the LaTeX files, does some processing, and stores them in JSON format. The file also serves as input for the Gizz browser game.
python3 extract-lyrics.py all_lyrics.json lyrics/*.texA big thanks to @michal-h21 for creating the TeX4ebook package: https://github.com/michal-h21/tex4ebook
Shoutout to kglw.net, weirdoswarm.org, gizzheads.de and the Gizz global community!