Lyrics to
Desperado

This version of Desperado was released by Linda Ronstadt in 1973.

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Desperado
Why don’t you come to your senses
You’ve been out riding fences for so long now
Oh you’re a hard one
But I know that you’ve got your reasons
These things that are pleasing you will hurt you somehow

Don’t you draw the queen of diamonds boy
She’ll beat you if she’s able
The queen of hearts is always your best bet
Well it seems to me some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the things that you can’t get

Desperado
you know you ain’t getting younger
Your pain and your hunger are driving you home
And freedom, oh freedom
Well that’s just some people talking
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Don’t your feet get cold in the wintertime
Sky won’t snow and the sun won’t shine
It’s hard to tell the night time from the day
You’re losing 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 raining
But there’s a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you
Let somebody love you
Before it’s too late

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Linda Ronstadt has released many songs over the years besides Desperado. Linda Ronstadt released songs from 1969 to 2004 spanning across albums like Hand Sown... Home Grown, Silk Purse, Linda Ronstadt, Don't Cry Now, Heart Like A Wheel, Prisoner In Disguise, Hasten Down The Wind, Simple Dreams, Living In The USA, Mad Love, Get Closer, What's New, Lush Life, For Sentimental Reasons, Canciones De Mi Padre, Cry Like A Rainstorm, Howl Like The Wind, Mas Canciones, Frenesi, Winter Light, Feels Like Home, Dedicated To The One I Love, We Ran, and Hummin' To Myself. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by Linda Ronstadt.

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About Lyrics and Desperado by Linda Ronstadt

The lyrics for Desperado are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1973 song by Linda Ronstadt. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Desperado have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Desperado - Linda Ronstadt and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Desperado by Linda Ronstadt in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Desperado" means the words set to the music of Desperado, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Linda Ronstadt. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Desperado and the lyrics to Desperado are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Linda Ronstadt who came here looking just for the lyrics to Desperado, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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