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 but I know that you've got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you will hurt you somehow
Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
She'll beat you if she's able
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, you know you ain't gettin' younger
Your pain and your hunger they're driving you home
And freedom, oh freedom, now that's just some people talkin'
You're a prisoner walking thru this world all alone
Don't your feet get cold in the winter time
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the sky
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 gates
It may be raining but there's a rainbow up above you
You'd better let somebody love you before it's too late