Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?   Ben out ridin' fences for so long now   Oh, you're a hard one but 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'll beat you if she's able   You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet   But 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 gettin' no younger   Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home   And freedom, oh freedom   Well that's just some people talkin'   Your prison is walkin' 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 losin' all your highs and lows   Ain't it funny how the feelin' goes away      Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?   Come down from those fences, open the gate   It may be rainin' but there's a rainbow above you   You better let somebody love you, let somebody love you   You better let somebody love you before it's too late