DESPERADO (THE EAGLES)

Story Behind The Song

ONE OF MY BETTER COVER VERSIONS...

Song Description

ONE OF MY BETTER COVER VERSIONS...

Song Length 3:37 Genre Pop - Easy Listening, Pop - Classic
Tempo Slow (71 - 90) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Mood Moving, Poignant Subject Heartbreak, Unrequited Love
Similar Artists The Eagles, Burton Cummings Language English
Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

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

Lyrics ROSE/HENLEY/FREY Music ROSE/HENLEY/FREY
Producer GEORGE SLADEK Publisher ROSE/HENLEY/FREY
Performance GEORGE SLADEK Label ARCH CITY

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