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 get your reasons
These things that are pleasing you
Gonna 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 your best bet
Now it seems to me that 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, that's just some people talking
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

And you're losing all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how that feeling goes away?

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences and open up the gate
It may be raining, but there is a rainbow above you
You gonna let somebody love you (let somebody love you)
You better let somebody love you
Before it's too late
You better let somebody love you