Desperado

Desperado Desperado 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 desperado,things, person, song, come, been, become, saying, know, don’t, lines, life, cowboy, way, people, much, matter, love, always, vices, trying, talking, needs, bad, about, tell, something, someone, realize, out, now, home, himself, go, fences, ever