The original song was featured on the Eagles' second album Desperado, which was a concept album based on the Dalton gang of the Old West. I decided to stick with that concept, but focused on Billy The Kid instead...

Desperado

(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
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
Freedom
oh, freedom
That's just some people talkin'
You're a prisoner 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
and 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 and 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
Durata: 4:5