The word desperado brings to mind a noun a for bold and reckless criminal. When you think of a bold and reckless person, you normally think of a strong, mean, hardheaded, and manly man. For example, your John Waynes" and your Clint Eastwood types. The archtype of the mythological cowboy everyone is familiar with. The guy who doesn't settle down or fall in love. This is also the title of The Eagles" fifteenth song on the Hell Freezes Over album. I believe that The Eagles where also talking about someone they knew or even themselves, who acts like a desperado.
From the very first line in the song it basically spells out what they are talking about. The words "Desperado, why don't you come to your senses"(1), tells you that they are speaking of our so-called cowboy. They are also asking him to be himself. Not to act like this cowboy he thinks he is. This is more or less a plea from the artist to stop acting that way. They are saying that this person he has become, is not who he really is. The person he has become has been that way for so long that he does not want to go back. .
This is especially presented in the line "You've been out riding fences for so long now." (2)The artists saying that the cowboy has been out riding at the outside border fences of the ranch and that he needs to come back home and find himself. The ranch house is your real friends and family. Riding at the outside fences is saying that he has been the farthest from home that he has ever been. He has been there so long that the .
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people who are closest to him are afraid of what he has become and want it to end. An expression of longing is being displayed for this person. So it is obvious that the writers of the song are close to the person. They are so close to him that they understand the person very well and why he should change. .
The sense of understanding in the lines "Oh" you"re a hard one/ I know that you got your reasons"(3) is very evident.
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