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Heartache


Hidden Hills

November 3, 2024


We likely know this song by the Eagles from 1973. I heard it today on the radio (performed by Clint Back). I was carried back to my bedroom at 353 Mimosa Circle listening to this album and song on my Fisher stereo. Fifty years ago. I felt the yearning and longing that I felt so strongly as a disoriented 15 year old boy listening to Don Henley sing these lyrics. All kinds of mixed-up emotions to feel those same feelings today. Some of the lyrics strike just too close to home.


As I read somewhere, any song sung by Linda Ronstadt is the best version of the song. And with all due respect to the Eagles, she proves that statement true with Desperado. As Henley said:


"That vocal was not my best work, and I wish I had the chance to do it again. But that's OK ... Linda Ronstadt did it just fine."


The 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'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, before it's too late

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