Desperado

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 pleasing you can 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 you can't get.

Desperado,

Oh, you ain't getting no younger.

Your pain and your hunger,

They're driving you home.

Freedom, oh, freedom,

That's just some people talking.

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 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'd better let somebody love you.

You'd better let somebody love you,

Before it's too late.