Lyrics for Desperado as interpreted by Demau Senae

Desperado 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

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stringofpearls
02-22-2002

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I think that this means that there is a woman who loves this man she calls Desperado, but he won't accept the love that is waiting for him. She is not going to wait forever though.
I have recordings of this song by the Eagles, Linda Ronstadt and Johnny Rodriguez. All three are unique and good.

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blakerae
03-07-2002

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I think this song is about a woman ( or a man ) who is afraid to let herself fall in love and let herself be loved. In the first verse it says "i know that you got your reasons"...referring to reasons why she won't let herself be in love, maybe because she was hurt before...that is her reason. Then there is this one person (the singer) who is in love with her whom she keeps overlooking, waiting for something better or perhaps she can't see through the "rain" (her previous pain) that this person(the singer) is waiting to love her. If she would "come down from your fences", or let go of her insecurities and let herself go, then maybe she will see the rainbow through the clouds and let herself be loved.

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zacster
04-16-2002

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I think this song is about a young man that won't let love into his life, and the pain and hunger that he feels for love will cause him even more pain later in life if he doesn't let anyone in now.

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turtonhot
04-29-2002

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"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" - i think this means that he must win her over with emotions and feelings,rather than material gifts.

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ButtOfMalmsey
05-07-2002

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This song is kind of like Kenny Rogers's The Gambler, where card games are a metaphor for life. Here, we have the same wise man of the world using cards (and the country/frontier life) as a metaphor for love. I think the metaphor is built on a contrast; the card player is always a guarded individual, emotionally, and thus successful (the poker face). Come down from your fences/open the gate is a recommendation from the older man (who has clearly loved and lost) to the younger man to reveal his feelings.

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garbojen
05-31-2002

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I think this song can reflect an individual by and of itself without the relation to a certain someone, except in general. It could be becoming aware of how you are when it comes to love like the line "your loosin' all your highs and lows, aint it funny how the feeling goes away?" or "your prison is walking through this world all alone" such a fabulous song.

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SomeGirl_Jadzia
08-26-2002

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The "Desparado" is a freespirit who is afraid to love. Amazing song!

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joeyfox1
08-31-2002

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it's about the wirter giving advice to a boy. The advice between the queen of hearts and diamonds is about the types of women in this world. you have to find the queen of hearts or the one that loves you for who you are, not the queen of diamonds who only cares whatsw in your bank.

he also leaves messages about life: fine things have been put upon your table but you only want the ones you can't get (its funny how people are like that); let somebody love you before it's too late

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egut521
09-05-2002

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yeah i think its about like, loving the wrong woman. The Queen of Diamonds is like, the woman who uses the man for money but the queen of hearts is the woman who truly loves the man. But the desperado is in love with the woman of diamonds. Sad song, but its great

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Muzzy
03-06-2003

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This is such a beatiful song. Henley's singing in this song is probably one of the greatest ever recorded.

I heard he won't let the Eagles play this song unless he is there to sing it.

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mango1560
04-28-2003

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I think this is a song about a man who won't grow up, a man who wants all the wrong things. He's immersed himself in the materialistic, quick pleasures of life. The expense of this is that no one can get too close. Like so many young men, he clings to the idea of freedom, afraid of giving his independence to someone who could abuse him. Afraid to open his heart to the possibility of breaking.
God, I love this song.
While Clint Black (?) mastered this song on Common Thread, it could never measure up to the original. Henley is in a class of his own.

You can't have-a de mango!

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bigc
06-26-2004

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i think that this song his bout a person that is affraid to fall in love with some1 and the person wont wait around for it to happen.

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A_Page06
07-01-2004

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it's about love and life and how you have to go through life loving the queen of hearts instead of the queen of diamonds...just to reinterate what's already been said

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Tig3r_Lily
10-02-2004

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It's a reflection piece about a man who is afraid of love and being loved and the song is just telling 'desperado' to settle down with a Queen of hearts (Genuine girl) instead of The Queen of Diamonds (materialistic girl?)

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maybe_im_stupid
10-17-2004

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I think it's about a troubled young man who needs to grow up and learn what's wrong and what's right. It's telling him to grow up and leave all that negative stuff behind.

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tankbowens
10-19-2004

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This song is about a drug addict......

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willard
10-20-2004

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could be about someone who needs to settle down before they get left on the shelf

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Augthail
11-09-2004

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this song's about me :)
I think that the song is about a young man whose standards are too high. a lot of ladies he's met could be his, but he either thinks he can't get with them or there's something about them that's not quite perfect. so he always chases the women he can't have (married, higher up on the popularity ladder, etc.)

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Desperdo892
11-17-2004

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had to post it up here cuz of my name awesome song i think its about i guy with too high a standards or he just wants girls that are totally outta his league

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mike_81
11-25-2004

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i think its definately about a father telling a son to quit his destructive ways and to settle down. whatever it means, it is one of the best eagles songs ever, the Hell Freezes over version is absolutely flaweless

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MayorMenley
12-02-2004

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I have always taken this song to be both the go for the queen of hearts girl that loves you for you, not the queen of diamonds that only loves your money, and about having to get out there and take risk in order to really live life.

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longliverocknroll2
01-13-2005

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this song is about a cocaine addiction for the most part. "on the fence" is an old way of saying youre high on cocaine. "come down from your fences" means come down off of cocaine and clean up. also lines like "i know that u've got your reasons, these things that are pleasing u, can hurt u somehow" obviously that means these drugs that make u feel good can hurt u in the end, but then it talks about the queen of diamonds and so forth which is definately love

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take it 2 the limit
01-17-2005

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ok tankbowens and longliverrocknroll2, it's not about any kind of drug addiction and i think everyone else is thinks that it's not so i agree with them. this song is really beautiful and it's amazing. eagles are the best band.

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odnarbia
02-12-2005

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"...it was written for a freind of his(Henleys) whose name was Leo. And so the song started out 'Leo, my God, why don't you come to your senses. You've been out ridin' fences for so long now.'" -Glenn Frey

hmm, doesn't sound like a cocaine song to me...

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deediddum
02-23-2005

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Has anybody seen "In America" when the little girl sings this to her father - very effective. Lovely film.

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