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
And 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
Another 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, you ain't getting no younger
You're 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 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
And funny how the feeling goes away

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses
Come down from your fences
Open the day, it may be raining
But there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
Before it's too late