Who Recorded the Spoken Line in 'One of These Days'? Nick Mason, Not Roger Waters

The menacing threat “One of these days, I’m going to cut you into little pieces” on Meddle is often assumed to be Roger Waters, but it’s actually drummer Nick Mason delivering the line. Waters wrote it, but the band wanted a low, distorted voice that sounded like it came from a vat of honey and gravel. Mason nailed it in one take, and the engineers slowed down the tape to make it even deeper and more sinister.

The inspiration for the threat is murky—sometimes attributed to a BBC radio presenter who