The Wickedest Man In the World - Skyclad

I stand here before you the way life has made me

Ill-mannered, foul-mouthed, bad-tempered and lazy

I stare at your world down the neck of a bottle

Every day is a death-ride when I hold the throttle

To the drowning I am water

For your calm I am the storm

I’m the fiend who’s with your daughter

In bed well before the dawn

Was I the cat that got the bird?

They’ll put the blame on me

Everything was grand in Wonderland

Till Charles Manson came to tea

Each moment’s a game and I must play it to win

And if you cannot bear it then you’ll just have to grin

All the world is a stage so I aim to upstage you

(«By the pricking of my thumbs»)

Kill me off but like Banquo I’ll come back to plague you

(«Something wicked this way comes»)

All martyrs seek their cross and nails

The rebels grail his cause

So I’ll just sign away my soul

And forget the buyout clause

«The few who see me through my disguise

Abhore, deplore, hate and despise me

I care not what you perceive

Fall unto your knees»

Jack the Ripper went to Sunday school

With his best friends Mack the Knife

And the blue eyed boy who lives next door

He’s a junkie Jesus Christ

Do you think I’ll be sad 'cause you don’t like me

Well I consider it highly unlikely

Spill the milk but I won’t cry

My eyes are watertight like my alibi

Yes I’ll love you then leave you for no apparent reason

My names are many, my friends call me «Legion»

The light that casts the shadows, darker shades of black

That hide the drugged up mugger who will stab you in the back

I’m not the type of angel who fell from divine grace

I’m the one who was so bad he never got there in the first place

The vulture in the wings as the battle flags unfurl

«Pleased to meet you, I’m the wickedest man in the world»