Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
You been out ridin' fences for so long now
Yeah, you're a hard one
I know 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
And 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, no, you ain't gettin' no younger
Your pain and your hunger're drivin' you home
Freedom, oh, freedom
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 don't snow and the sun don't shine
And it's hard to tell the night-time from the day
And you're losin' 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
And open the gates
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