ฟังเพลงCrooked Tree

Crooked Tree - Sting/Shaggy (萨吉)

All rise for the Honorable Judge Burrell

This court is called to order

These charges are serious

Stand up and face the bench

How do you plead sir how do you plead

Guilty as charged the Judge decreed stand up and face the bench

I have some words to say to you before we recommence

A list of crimes this serious I swear I have not seen

In all the years that I have served

Her Majesty the Queen

Arson murder blackmail grand larceny and theft

Drug dealing human trafficking I ask the court what's left

Are there words of mitigation before I pass the sentence

Anything that you can tell the court to add to your defense

I faced the court thought long and hard before I gave reply

There's something that you need to hear from me before I die

The circumstances of my birth were something short of bliss

I have this from my mother it was told to me like this

The day that I was born she said

The good Lord woke from slumber

Looking 'round his timber yard

He found he had no lumber

Apart from some old twisted branch in shadows left to lurk

He pulled it out into the light and set about his work

She told me that the world should not expect too much of me

When the good Lord carved my crooked soul out of a crooked tree

When the good Lord carved my crooked soul out of a crooked tree

Stand up and face the bench

I've heard all you've got to say

That there look on your face says you're guilty

And now it's your judgment day

I'm not asking for forgiveness

I'm not proud of what I've done

I did the things I had to do like any other mother's son

None of us are perfect so remember what you see

When the good lord carved this crooked soul out of a crooked tree