"Crime of Passion" is a song written by Walt Aldridge and Mac McAnally, and recorded by American country music singer Ricky Van Shelton.
[1] The song's main plot – a drifter who conspires with a young woman to rob a gas station – serves as a metaphor for a man who falls hard for a woman with sinister hidden motives: in this case, a failed love affair with a seductress, who leaves her target to the wolves after he serves her purposes.
In the song's first verse, the drifter is picked up by a beautiful young woman driving a Cadillac Eldorado convertible, along a desert highway.
After the two begin talking and the man explains his situation (he's unemployed and broke), the woman suggests finding a place to rob.
It is later explained that the woman's soon-to-be ex-husband is the gas station owner who – as a favor to her – refuses to implicate her, leaving the drifter to take the fall alone.