All rise for the Honorable Judge Burrell
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This court is called to order
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These charges are serious
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Stand up and face the bench
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How do you plead, Sir? How do you plead?
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[Shaggy]
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“Guilty as charged,” the Judge decreed, “stand up and face the bench
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I have some words to say to you before we recommence
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A list of crimes this serious, I swear I have not seen
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In all the years that I have served Her Majesty the Queen
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Arson, murder, blackmail, grand larceny and theft
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Drug dealing, human trafficking, I ask the court, what’s left?
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Are there words of mitigation, before I pass the sentence?
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Anything that you can tell the court to add to your defense?”
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[Sting]
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I faced the court, thought long and hard before I gave reply
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“There’s something that you need to hear, from me before I die
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The circumstances of my birth were something short of bliss
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I have this from my mother, it was told to me like this…
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‘The day that I was born, she said, The Good Lord woke from slumber
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Looking ‘round his timber yard, He found He had no lumber
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Apart from some old twisted branch, in shadows left to lurk
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He pulled it out into the light and set about his work.’
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She told me that the world should not expect too much of me
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When the Good Lord carved my crooked soul, out of a crooked tree
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When the Good Lord carved my crooked soul, out of a crooked tree.”
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[Shaggy]
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“Stand up and face the bench
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I’ve heard all you’ve got to say
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That there look on your face says you’re guilty
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And now it’s your judgment day.”
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[Sting]
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“I’m not asking for forgiveness
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I’m not proud of what I’ve done
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I did the things I had to do, like any other mother’s son
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None of us are perfect, so remember what you see
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When the Good lord carved this crooked soul, out of a crooked tree
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When the Good Lord carved this crooked soul, out of a crooked tree.”
