The song was said to be "a simple plea to a friend to 'snap out of it'".

And for just a moment she saw the simple, heartfelt plea: Get me out of here.

It had been left open to a page where, at age 5, she had scrawled a simple plea: "People, be nice to each other.

Both lines of the text are formed as simple but imploring pleas.

Brown's appeal was a simple plea for equality.

This was a simple unadorned plea to me not to make you speak of Armand and how he had gone into the morning fire.

I wish to make a simple plea about the 20 per cent.

It began with a simple plea for equity, for the same deal that other unions had.

Then there are the simple pleas for some of the thousands missing to please come home, please.

A closing title then offers a simple plea: "Hockey, please come back."