Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?   You been out riding fences for so long now   Oh, you're a hard one but I know that you 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 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, 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   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 better let somebody love you   (Let somebody love you)   You better let somebody love you before it's too late