Free Until They Cut Me Down Lyrics

Lyric discussion by neonskyline 

Cover art for Free Until They Cut Me Down lyrics by Iron & Wine

I don't see the theme of the cross here, but that's just me. I think that this is a man singing about his imminent excecution for the murder of or crime against a young woman. He keeps saying, "She begged me to take her home" making it her fault somehow. He's not really free persay, but will literally be swinging free on the wind after he is hung.