This song has been covered by Linda Ronstadt, The Carpenters, Clint Black and Johnny Cash Desperado was never released as a single...can you believe it? Fan Comments Words and Music by Don Henley and Glenn Frey Desperado why don't you come to your senses? You 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 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 Desperado oh you ain't getting' no younger Your pain and your hunger They're drivin' you home And freedom oh freedom Well that's just some people talkin' Your prison is walkin' through This world all alone 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 losin' all your highs and lows Ain't it funny how the feelin' 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 You better love somebody love you Before it's too late