Desperado why dont you come to your senses
“Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?”
When I was 14 I dropped out of high school and went work to in a cafeteria. I worked there for about a month before they fired me, but that’s another story.
While I was there, the assistant manager used to look at me and sing this line from the Eagles song.
I never knew what he was talking about.
About 25 years later, I was driving my car and the song came on. All of a sudden I understood what he had meant.
The song says, “I know that you’ve got your reasons, these things that are pleasing you can hurt you somehow.” The song is all about expectations. The final line is, “It may be raining, but there’s a rainbow above you. You’d better let somebody love you before it’s too late.”
I think that’s what he was saying to me. At that time, I was a shy, drug addled teenager with no future. Even worse than those shortcomings, I had no one around me to help me move into the future. I had nothing before me.
Sadly, it took me over 20 years to understand the meaning here. It took me decades to get to the point where I would start opening up and, as it says, “Let somebody love you.”
This song also says “these things that are pleasing you can hurt you somehow.” And that was what I had gotten into. I was insecure and incapable of interacting with the world around me. So, I just escaped any way that I could, and never listened to anyone around me.
For 20-some years, I acted like the desperado. When I realized what he had meant all those years ago, it was with tears running down my face because I had wasted such a big portion of my life.