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 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 Heats 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 youger
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 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 loosing 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
You better let somebody love you
before it's too late