KGLW - The Book

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.

Download

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.

▶️PDF

▶️EPUB

▶️MOBI

Alternatively, head to the Releases page to download the latest or an earlier version.

Browser Game

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/

Copyright

All artwork and lyrics are copyright by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and the respective authors.
See kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com for details.

Requirements

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 indexing4ht package from https://github.com/michal-h21/helpers4ht is included here
• 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 tidy

Building

Download 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.

Notes

A 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!