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Magistrate

from The Officiant by Dirty Melissa

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Far from home and living in a dormitory, he has met a woman who wants to be married and have a family and he courts her and in under 5 months they find themselves at city hall getting hitched... during the process he notices the judge and the process of marrying them ...

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***Far from home and living in a dormitory, he has met a woman who wants to be married and have a family and he courts her and in under 5 months they find themselves at city hall getting hitched... during the process he notices the judge and the process of marrying them ...


We exchanged turkey sandwiches and
painted random cinder block bricks
on dorm room walls
It wasn't too long before we
decided to get married
and move away from these halls
Did I want a wedding back home
or did I just want to be hitched

That's where I first saw the magistrate
Captured the marriage on video tape
Dressed up in my blues
And she was waiting there with
a fancy white dress and flowers in her hair
Cold and white outside the courthouse
That's where I first saw the magistrate

I played back the tape
And she was awesome
In her tie & long black gown
I was nervous and
it was darling and cute
and we were kind of funny
and I kind of liked
what was going down
what I saw and what she did
And what I saw what she said and how it worked ....

That's where I first saw the magistrate
Captured the marriage on video tape
Dressed up in my blues
And she was waiting there with
a fancy white dress and flowers in her hair
cold and white outside the courthouse
That's where I first saw the magistrate

first saw the magistrate
first saw the magistrate

The consummate and quintessential
Authority and professional
I wonder what lucky guy would consummate
the magistrate

I wondered if I could ever become

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from The Officiant, released November 30, 2015

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Dirty Melissa Auburn, California

Jonathan Aronson a.k.a. Dirty Melissa

Topical Lounge Metal Social Commentary Advice-Rock Show Tunes and Dinner Theater Punk

Methodology? Analog multitrack and plodding drum machine, usually one take recordings. Errors and all. ... more

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