The Eagles —
Desperado

Lyrics and Music by Don Henley, Glenn Frey

Desperado,
Why don’t you come to your senses?
You’ve been out riding fences
For so long now.
Oh, you’re a hard one,
I know that you got your reasons,
These things that are pleasing you
Can hurt you somehow.

   Don’t you draw
   The queen of diamonds, boy,
   She’ll beat you if she’s able
   You know the queen of hearts
   Is always your best bet.
   Now it seems to me some fine things
   Have been laid upon your table,
   But you only want the ones
   That you can’t get.

Desperado,
Oh, you ain’t getting no younger,
Your pain and your hunger,
They’re driving you home.
And freedom, oh, freedom,
Well, that’s just
Some people talking,
Your prison is walking
Through this world all alone.

   Don’t your feet get cold
   In the wintertime?
   The sky won’t snow
   And the sun won’t shine,
   It’s hard to tell the nighttime
   From the day
   You’re losing all your highs and lows.
   Ain’t it funny how the feeling goes
   Away?

Desperado,
Why don’t you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences,
Open the gate.
It may be raining,
But there’s a rainbow above you.
You better let somebody love you
(Let somebody love you),
You better let somebody love you
Before it’s too late.