“Desperado : Desperado” is a song by Eagles. This page features time-synced lyrics that highlight each line as the song plays — press play to sing along in real time. The lyrics contain 28 lines.
Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
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You've been out ridin' fences for so long now
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Oh, you're a hard one
But I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow
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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
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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
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Desperado, oh, you ain't gettin' no younger
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Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home
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And freedom, oh freedom, well, that's just some people talkin'
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Your prison is walkin' through this world all alone
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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
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You're losin' all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away?
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Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
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Come down from your fences, open the gate
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It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
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You better let somebody love you
(Let somebody love you)
You better let somebody love you
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Before it's too late
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