Lyric discussion by stemann 

I don't think this song is really telling the listener to either have mercy or not on the criminal, rather just about how the criminal feels at being hunted, and pretty much knowing he's going to be caught before the night is out. So, if he finds an old house on the moors or something, he would be so desperate and pleading to warrant a song about these feelings (?).

I think that this song is a pleading apology for forgiveness from someone that thinks you have wronged them. I once put it on a mix album for a woman that stopped talking to me after I told her that I loved her.

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