Sting - crooked tree

법정에서 피고는 중범죄 혐의에 대한 처벌을 받는 가운데, 자신의 출생 배경에 대한 이야기를 통해 형량 감경의 기회를 주장한다
그의 출생은 불행했고, 이것이 자신의 범죄에 영향을 미쳤음을 설명하려 한다
재판관은 그가 저지른 범죄의 심각성을 강조하며 그의 변론을 듣고 있다

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.’