MAN WHO SPEAKS EVIL As recorded by Slade (From the 1972 Album SLAYED? - CD REISSUE BONUS TRACK) [Intro] [Verse 1] His mind is hurtsome with grief He sits and watches a grass or leaf He can tell when a new one grows he can And watches as maggots flee from the throat of a dead man [Verse 2] Across two seas he can hear And grabs your words before you speak them He hears the sound of drinking grass he does And the Arctic moves each gigantic load for his owner’s sake [Chorus] He’s a man who speaks evil He’s a man who is evil He looks at evil as a good thing He can speak evil he can hear evil He really really lives it [Bridge] He can feel that all his thoughts are changing That all his thoughts are changing by the hour He can feeeeeel [Interlude] [Verse 3] This man is hurtsome with grief He sits and watches a grass or leaf He talks to them all while they grow he does And wanders like a dog day thief Inside out and below you know [Chorus] He’s a man who speaks evil He’s a man who is evil He looks at evil as a good thing He can speak evil he can hear evil He really really lives it [Bridge] He can feel that all his thoughts are changing That all his thoughts are changing by the hour He can feeeeeel [Outro]