1360 – Eagles – Desperado (1973)

Escrita por Glenn Frey e Don Henley, foi gravada no começo de 1973 e lançada em 17 de abril de 1973 no disco Desperado. É o numero 494 da lista das 500 greatest songs of all time da revista Rolling Stone. Foi gravada no Island Studios em Londres, com músicos da London Phillarmonic Orchestra, que foi conduzida por Jim Ed Norman. É a segunda melhor canção do Eagles, eleita pelos leitores da revista Rolling Stone. Don Henley cantou e tocou bateria. Gleen Frey tocou piano e fez backing vocals. Bernie Leadon tocou guitarra e fez backing vocal. Randy Meisner tocou baixo e fez backing vocals. Foi regravada pelos Carpenters, Diana Krall, Linda Ronstadt, Kenny Rogers, Judy Collins e Jonhnny Cash, entre outros artistas.

A letra:

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
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 gettin' 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 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 losin' 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
(Let somebody love you)
You better let somebody love you before it's too late

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