Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
  You been out ridin' fences for so long now
  Oh, you're a hard one
  I know that you got your reasons
  These things that are pleasin' you
  Can hurt you somehow
    Don' 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 gettin' no youger
  Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home
  And freedom, oh freedom well, that's just some people talkin'
  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 loosin' 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 rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
  You better let somebody love you, before it's too late