King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
Album • 2017
[Narrator] As soon as the dust settles, you can see A new world in place of where the old one had been Your skin is crawling with dry, crusted mud And your naked feet are wet in a pool of blood And the whistle of the wind in your ears is so loud That your memories have blown up in a mushroom cloud And as your eyes accommodate There appears by the meadow A brute like a bear with a long, dark shadow And you violently shake over what you have seen As you remember the tale of the Altered Beast
Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025
[Refrain 1] I think I see An altered beast by the tree, oh [Verse 1] Take a peek If you would dare Half made of man Half of bear [Chorus] He came from underneath I met an altered beast [Refrain 2] I think I see An altered beast by the creek, oh [Verse 2] Altered face And altered skin Altered horde Of altered kin [Chorus] He came from underneath I met an altered beast [Refrain 3] I think I see An altered beast in my dreams [Narrator] In a dream, you can wake in your bed without pain But know with conviction, it's here you'll remain [Chorus] I met an altered beast [Narrator] With an unsteady gait, the critter moves forth Feel his rhythm as he tramples the earth And you stare at his figure, stupefied in dread As his gaze locks to yours and bores into your head And the pulse is so loud on the inside of your brain And you find that your feet are stuck to the terrain Closer he comes, making dust out of stone Forsaken you are, and what's more, all alone [Refrain 1] I think I see An altered beast by the tree, oh [Chorus] I met an altered beast
Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025
[Narrator] For all its revoltion, and warp, and taboo A part of you wants to be altered too [Chorus] Altered beast Alter me Altered beast Alter me! [Chorus] Altered beast Alter me Altered beast Alter me!
Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025
[Narrator] Now dear listener, we crossed the foe The foe with the weapons and heavy cargo [Narrator: Altered Beast] I am the sabre, the catapult, and bat The top of the food chain in my habitat I am the demon bearing misery and fear And I spy you convulsing from way over here I could pull you apart or I could cut you to pieces I could make you weep crimson tears from the lesions But the thing that I lust for and the thing that I'll get Is to take over your body and to be in your head [Verse 1] I see you I want to Break your head Crusty bread, oh [Verse 2] I won't quit If you quip See to it That you slip, oh [Refrain] I see you I want to Seize your brain I'd like to put it in my head [Narrator: Altered Beast] To me you are game, just a sweet bit of meat Come closer and drink malevolence from my teat [Chorus] Tell me would you honestly Dare to face up next to me Sugar coated pills won't keep You from feeling so woozy I am an Altered Beast, oh [Narrator: Altered Beast] What harm could a mere mortal like you do? I am the golden wolf and you are caribou My left hand is a knife and my right is a fork I will pull you apart like a butcher pulls pork [Verse 3] I see you I want to Make a waste Of your home, oh [Verse 4] I won't leave I might tease I'll be there Await your death, oh [Refrain] I see you I want to Seize your brain I'd like to put it in my head [Narrator: Altered Beast] I see you're nervous, I see you're fumbling Come hither my friend, my stomach is rumbling [Chorus] Tell me would you honestly Dare to face up next to me Sugar coated pills won't keep You from feeling so woozy Tell me would you honestly Dare to face up next to me Sugar coated pills won't keep You from feeling so woozy I am an Altered Beast
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025
[Narrator: Altered Beast] Your dumb human head is full of naiveté Your impending fate, is to be one with me [Chorus] Altered beast Alter me Altered beast Alter me Altered beast Alter me Altered beast Alter me Altered beast Alter me Altered beast Alter me Altered beast Alter me Altered beast Alter me [Narrator] Now we cross to our friend on the monster's plate In time he will turn and reincarnate
Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025
[Intro] I know I see An altered beast By the tree [Verse 1] Find a place to hide Where I could steal a peep Look to the sky And I see angels weep [Chorus 1] And he said: "I see you And I can see right through I see you And I will take you to my altered world" [Post-Chorus] Nine white teeth (Nine white teeth, my gums bequeathed) My gums bequeathed (Nine white teeth, my gums bequeathed) [Verse 2] Hair on my skin And I'm feeling beastly Feel it trickle in A new life in me [Chorus 2] And I said: "I see you And I can see right through I see you And I will take you to my altered world" [Post-Chorus] Nine white teeth (Nine white teeth, my gums bequeathed) My gums bequeathed (Nine white teeth, my gums bequeathed) [Narrator] Nine pearl fangs, a true sign that you're deformed Once a man, now a monstrosity reborn [Chorus 3] I see you I can see right through I see you I can see right through I see you I can see right through I see you And I'll take you to my altered world [Outro] I am an altered beast!
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025
[Narrator] No more consternation, no longer insalubrious The beast's DNA has dug into your nucleus [Chorus] Altered beast Alter me Altered beast Alter me! [Chorus] Altered beast Alter me Altered beast Alter me! [Chorus] Altered beast Alter me Altered beast Alter me! [Chorus] Altered beast Alter me Altered beast Alter me!
Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025
[Narrator] You don't feel a thing in your sinuous head No love, no pain, and no fear of dread Your apathetic dispassion has made you distort And your savoir faire is to kill for sport You'd wound a small creature and watch it wiggle And lust to feel so bad, that you'd force a giggle So crooked and curled is your point of view There is no other creature more malicious than you [Verse 1] I'm completely satisfied My other life I will not miss An altered beast until I die And I will not give up on this Never! [Verse 2] True, I went to hell and back But it was so I could be this An altered beast until the end And I will not give up on this Never! [Chorus] I don't feel heinous I don't feel no pain I don't feel nothing I don't feel anything I don't feel heinous I don't feel no pain I don't feel nothing I don't feel anything Altered Beast within me I don't feel heinous I don't feel no pain I don't feel nothing I don't feel anything [Narrator] You're ruthless, and savage, and sadistic, and vindictive And you find human flesh is incredibly addictive But the longer you live, and the longer you kill There's a void that gets harder, and harder to fill The void that you feel within would suggest That a canyon has opened up inside of your chest And whatever you do, there's no turning back You've reached the end of the cul-de-sac [Verse 3] Emptiness inside of me And hollowness all around me I cut myself to see it bleed And now I don't feel anything Never! [Verse 4] Insincere and trivial The world is void of all meaning And gone is all that's visceral And now I don't feel anything Never! [Chorus] I don't feel heinous I don't feel no pain I don't feel nothing I don't feel anything I don't feel heinous I don't feel no pain I don't feel nothing I don't feel anything Altered Beast within me I don't feel heinous I don't feel no pain I don't feel nothing I don't feel anything I don't feel heinous I don't feel no pain I don't feel nothing I don't feel anything Altered Beast within me I don't feel heinous I don't feel no pain I don't feel nothing I don't feel anything [Narrator] The sole thing that will make your void obsolete Is to find someone new, some sapid fresh meat [Outro] Altered beast Alter me Altered beast Alter me I think I see An altered beast inside me, oh! I am an altered beast
Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025
[Narrator] Are you you? Are you me? Or someone in between? You lost track inside the labyrinthine You lost your will and your sanity You certainly lost your humanity In life, you have taken much more than your worth Now it's your turn to give back to the earth May you return to the ground and ossify It's time for you to die, die, die
Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025
This track is instrumental.
[The Reticent Raconteur] There is a secret I've been keeping, a story true and genuine And I have not the candid heart to keep its burden clandestine For its gravity is as weighty as a mountain capped in snow And its memory repeats inside of me, ostinato And every time I think of the poor lot, I recall The fear upon their faces and the doomed fate of them all I saw death become of light, and life become of fire I saw it from my hiding place, within the quagmire I bringeth forth the drama, unabridged, and unignored The battle of the Balrog, and the mighty lightning lord
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025
[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] Lining up his target like the huntsman points his rifle Waves of flaxen flames as he mutters his magic title [Refrain] Lightning, oh! [Pre-Chorus] Nonagon, nonagon Nonagon infinity, yup! [Interlude: The Reticent Raconteur] Howling like a horde of demons greatest battle cry The violent lightning lord points his arms into the sky [Chorus] Floating fire Golden wire Silver trails Flashing spire Guns are cracking Bombs are smacking Cat o' tails Whips her lashings [Verse 2] Lord of Lightning moves our way Sends a crooked look at me Electricity escapes Lights the sky in citrine fleece [Refrain] Lightning, oh! [Pre-Chorus] Nonagon, nonagon Nonagon infinity, yup! [SPLIT] [Interlude: The Reticent Raconteur] One more time the vault lights up with carnival of paint I endeavor to watch the panic, but I worry that I will faint [Chorus] Floating fire Golden wire Silver trails Flashing spire Guns are cracking Bombs are smacking Cat o' tails Whips her lashings [Verse 3] Lord of Lightning's closer now Our world's only rain and cloud I'm not sure we have the power Need to smite this evil down [Refrain] Lightning, oh! [Pre-Chorus] Nonagon, nonagon Nonagon infinity, yup! Nonagon, nonagon, oh! [Interlude: The Reticent Raconteur] And from the Lord's electric snare One goes in his electric chair [Verse 1] Lord of Lightning shifts his gaze Points his strong finger our way Electricity escapes Leaves destruction in our wake [Interlude: The Reticent Raconteur] His electric trap has electric cyanide The luckless hostage has been thoroughly fried [Refrain] Lightning, oh! [Pre-Chorus] Nonagon, nonagon Nonagon infinity, yup! [Outro: The Reticent Raconteur] And as the cadaver lay static with open crusted eyes The smoking corpse began to twitch at my great surprise Then the figure sprung up and at once it caught alight And the creature known as Balrog was born that very night
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025
[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 the head from you [Refrain] Balrog, balrog Balrog, balrog Balrog, balrog, yep, oh! [The Reticent Raconteur] Balrog fears not the Lightning Lord He's fixed on us, has him ignored [Verse 1] Feel a tingle Rolling up your left arm when you Think of evil Lurking in the darkness where you Shine your eyesight Something tells you this is not right Take some advice Have you heard the murmurings of [Refrain] Balrog, balrog Balrog, balrog Balrog, balrog, yep! [Chorus] You caused a massive rift You made the atom split And it came screaming through Here to bite the head off you [Refrain] Balrog, balrog Balrog, balrog Balrog, balrog [The Reticent Raconteur] I build the bravery to sneak a glimpse at its expression And beyond the flames I see him smirk at our present depression I fear that God's a chef and he's thrown us into a great pot He is here, fully formed, and glowing red and lapis hot [Verse 2] Heated menace Comes to gouge the heart out from us Blazing zealot Preaching on the apocalypse I don't want to Submit to his awful torture Save me from him Have you heard the murmurings of [Refrain] Balrog, balrog Balrog, oh! [Verse 3] Skin begins to burn There's nowhere we can turn There's no way we can win The devil puppets him His pyre muscles flex We are his next subjects His power has us floored Kneel before the overlord [Refrain] Balrog, balrog Balrog, balrog Balrog, balrog Balrog, balrog Balrog, balrog Balrog, balrog Balrog, yes, oh! [The Reticent Raconteur] For them, the future was as laid out as the burnt path he swathe And so the damned remaining lot knelt before the red behemoth And as they prepared for afterlife there appeared the endemic monstrosity The Lighting Lord is back and charged the Balrog with animosity Furious he pummeled his breast, and a blaze alit the heavens The stage was set for war, and to the Balrog, the Lord's finger beckoned
Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 26, 2025
[Verse 1] Clouds begin to tear Sky is bleeding hair God is weeping tears You are full of fears Vehement lightning quake Head begins to ache Lord has thunder snake Balrog he will break [The Reticent Raconteur] And thus, revenge was fruitless, for one who had been turned And we are reminded who lords over this altered world [Bridge] Floating fire sky Everything will die [Lord of Lightning Chorus] Floating fire Golden wire Silver trails Flashing spire Guns are cracking Bombs are smacking Cat o' tails Whips her lashing [Verse 2] Lord of Lightning safe he Pulls a golden stake Launches into space and Mutters to the beast, one word: [Outro] Lightning, yup
Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 26, 2025
[The Reticent Raconteur] And as the acrid Balrog corpse smoulders just like it began Its crimson-orange light melts into the setting sun And leaving us, not without a final clap of light The Lightning Lord escapes as day fades into moonless night
Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025
[Han-Tyumi] Impertinent and ignorant Deathless and restless Cold contrite cowards Digitised satellite Augmented entities Unremembered God The world fades to black Digital black Welcome to an altered future
Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025
[Intro] Digital, oh! [Verse 1] Despondent, lugubrious, no future We turned our bodies to computer We are our own nature, abuser No future, computer, abuser [Chorus 1] 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, oh! [Verse 2] We've sunken into our illusion We've fashioned colossal confusion I am the word of the last human Illusion, confusion, last human [Chorus 2] I can see it all around the land I can feel it with the back of my hand I can hear a roaring silence Of the murky caliginous I've heard the dark beast has said That the world is like a brittle egg He can crush it with only breath And he can bring a black wave of death Digital black [Han-Tyumi] The last who feels the pain from the wound The last to be birthed from the flesh of a womb A wretched life in this altered place There must be more I can embrace [Bridge] Oh! No future, computer, abuser Digital black! Illusion, confusion, last human Digit, digit, digit [Chorus 1] 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...
[Han-Tyumi] 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 of 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
Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025
[Han-Tyumi] So I built a machine A human machine I made it with steel And soy-protein Born from a test tube And into a vat To live and to heave And to die just like that
Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025
[Chorus] Oh, vomit coffin Vomit coffin Vomit coffin Vomit coffin [Verse 1] I don't feel blessed With the vomit In my chest I feel like coughing [Chorus] Vomit coffin Vomit coffin Vomit coffin Vomit coffin, oh [Bridge 1] Queasy green Rotten scoff Vomit cough [Han-Tyumi] And when I declared to my design Like Frankenstein's monster: "I am your father, I am your god And you the magic that I conjure" The thankless swine The blasphemous jerk My creature had no love for me Which made me berserk [Soy-Protein Munt Machine] I am covered in vomit I am coated in sick I have no name and no place This is no way to live [Han-Tyumi] So I took over my creation The spew coated protein I plugged myself in And became one with machine [Verse 2] I don't feel blessed With the vomit In my neck I feel like death [Chorus] Vomit coffin Vomit coffin Vomit coffin Vomit coffin [Bridge 2] Filthy green Rotten scoff [Outro] Vomit vomit vomit vomit Vomit vomit vomit vomit cough
Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025
[Han-Tyumi] The spatter becomes a spray the spray becomes a stream And the stream becomes a waterfall Munt is finally cascading from my input The creeping sick moves from my breath And into my heart where it is pumped to every inch of my body I feel it snake through the knots of my deepest veins And eats through the walls of my cells It bleeds through the pores of my skin And it smells good It drops from my crotch on to the floor And 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 Chunky shrapnel tears through everything around me I am vomit vomiting I grow and disperse Bleeding through walls I force myself upon others I slide up legs and crawl down throats I integrate I am double Triple I am ten times the size I turn lakes into porridge and buildings into bile I am a noxious soup filling valleys with vomit-torrents Castles crumble in landslides and I munch the rubble It tastes good Ten thousand times bigger I seep into power sockets and travel along the wires At the speed of light across vast electrical networks I am electric I am on fire This is sex I am every one and every zero One million I am supercharged flaming puke storming every cell, molecule and atom I can find I am cancer I am flying I am a rainbow unfurling across the sky I am floating I am omni Five hundred million The world is my interior It no longer spins It is altered My density forces me outward I am in orbit One billion I am Saturn's rings and Jupiter's storms I am the weather I am the sun's heat I am the night sky Five hundred billion The solar system is puke To the Kuiper belt and beyond I fill the void Exploding suns vomit comets Comets vomit acid rain Spilt milk over the milky way One trillion The stars are my cells Racing faster outwards Upwards Downwards Inwards Losing track of my place in the vomit-verse Every-nowhere I am heavy I am gravity Nebulas pregnant with barf pulsate and burst Expansion I shoot arrows of time in all directions I am a black hole shitting into the void I tear through the skin of perception and into the next Nonillion The cosmic microtone background becomes transparent Like rising damp Munt soaks into the walls of the cosmos And it topples like soggy bread I am dark energy accelerating Multiverse Entanglement I am time Centillion Time is sick Critical density Contraction Singularity Everything and nothing Life and death Murder of the universe
Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025
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