Desperado why don't you come to your senses?
You been out ridin' fences for so long now
Oh you're a hard one
I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow 

Don't you draw the queen of diamonds boy
She will beat you if she's able
The queen of hearts is always your best bet 

And 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 gettin' no younger
Your pain and your hunger, its drivin' you home
Oooh freedom, oh freedom, that's just some people talkin'
Your prison is walking through 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 day
You're loosin' all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away, away? 

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin' ooh but there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you, Let somebody love you
Oh you better let somebody love you,
you better let somebody love you before it's too late