Released: April 17, 1973
Songwriter: Don Henley Glenn Frey
Producer: Glyn Johns
[Verse 1]
Desperado
Why don't you come to your senses?
You've been out ridin' fences
For so long now
Oh, you're a hard one
But I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow
[Verse 2]
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
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
[Verse 3]
Desperado
Oh, you ain't getting no younger
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
[Verse 4]
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 5]
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
(Let somebody love you)
You better let somebody love you
Before it's too late
Desperado
Why don't you come to your senses?
You've been out ridin' fences
For so long now
Oh, you're a hard one
But I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow
[Verse 2]
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
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
[Verse 3]
Desperado
Oh, you ain't getting no younger
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
[Verse 4]
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 5]
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
(Let somebody love you)
You better let somebody love you
Before it's too late
Farewell 1 Tour: Live from Melbourne
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- One Day at a Time
- Heartache Tonight (Live version)
- Take It Easy (Live version)
- I Can’t Tell You Why (Live version)
- Life in the Fast Lane (Live version)
- Hotel California (Live Millennium Concert Version)
- Take It to the Limit (Live version)
- New Kid in Town (Live version)
- The Boys of Summer
- Silent Spring (Intro)
- You Belong to the City
- Walk Away
- Sunset Grill
- Funk #49
- All She Wants to Do Is Dance
- Desperado
- Tequila Sunrise
- Already Gone
- Peaceful Easy Feeling
- The Long Run
- In the City
- Love Will Keep Us Alive
- No More Cloudy Days
- Life’s Been Good
- One of These Nights
- Lyin’ Eyes
- Dirty Laundry
- Wasted Time (Reprise)
- Rocky Mountain Way
- Desperado (1973)
- Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 (1976)
- Eagles Live (1980)
- The Eagle Has Landed (1994)
- Hell Freezes Over (1994)
- Selected Works: 1972–1999 (2000)
- The Very Best of Eagles (2003)
- Farewell 1 Tour: Live from Melbourne (2005)
- Hotel California
- Take It Easy
- Desperado
- One of These Nights
- Life in the Fast Lane
- Take It to the Limit
- New Kid in Town
- The Last Resort
- Lyin’ Eyes
- Wasted Time
- Tequila Sunrise
- Best of My Love
- Peaceful Easy Feeling
- Witchy Woman
- I Can’t Tell You Why
- Please Come Home for Christmas
- Already Gone
- The Long Run
- Doolin-Dalton
- Love Will Keep Us Alive
- Victim of Love
- Pretty Maids All in a Row
- Heartache Tonight
- The Heart of the Matter