Desperado, why don't you come to your senses You've been out ride in fences for so long now Oh you're a hard one But I know that you've 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 you can't get Desperado, you ain't getting a 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 And 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 above you You'd better let somebody love you Let somebody love you You'd better let somebody love you Before it's too late