Lyrics to
Desperado

This version of Desperado was released by The Carpenters in 1975.

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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’ve 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
The queen of hearts is always your best bet

Now it seems to me some fine things have been laid upon the 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 drive you home

Freedom, ah freedom
That’s just some people talkin’
You’re prisoners 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 night time 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 fineces
Open the gate

It may be rainin’
But there’s a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
Before it’s too late

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The Carpenters has released many songs over the years besides Desperado. The Carpenters released songs from 1969 to 1989 spanning across albums like Ticket To Ride, Close To You, Carpenters, A Song For You, Now And Then, Horizon, A Kind Of Hush, Passage, Christmas Portrait, Made In America, Voice Of The Heart, An Old-Fashioned Christmas, and Lovelines. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Carpenters.

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About Lyrics and Desperado by The Carpenters

When you decide to study the lyrics to Desperado, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by The Carpenters. Some of the lyrics to Desperado have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Carpenters and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Desperado if you take apart the structure of the words. 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 The Carpenters. 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 The Carpenters 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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