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 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, 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