[Verse 1]
Desperado
Why don't you come to your senses?
You've been out ridin' fences
For so long
You're a hard one
I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasing
Will hurt you somehow

[Bridge]
Don't you draw the queen of diamonds
Boy, she'll beat you if she's able
The queen of hearts is always your best bet
It seems to me some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can't get

[Verse 2]
Desperado
You know you ain't getting no younger
Your pain and your hunger
They're driving you home
And freedom, freedom
Oh, that's just some people talking
Your prison is walking through
This world all alone
[Bridge]
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?

[Verse 3]
Desperado
Why don't you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences
And open the gate
It may be raining
But there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you
Let somebody love you
Oh, let somebody love you
Before it's too late