Listen to this when
Desperado
To the ones who never let anyone in 🤠
Who it's for
Don Henley and Glenn Frey's ballad addresses a hardened loner who keeps everyone out, gently urging him to accept love before it's too late.
Proud, isolated→Open to letting people in
Feelings it meets
What it is
"Desperado" is a ballad written by Glenn Frey and Don Henley and the title track of the Eagles' second album, Desperado (1973). Henley began it in 1968, and he and Frey finished it in 1972; it was recorded in London with members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Never released as a single, it nonetheless became one of the band's best-known songs, helped by Linda Ronstadt's cover.
Where to find it
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Before you start
Age: All ages
No man is an island, entire of itself;John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII
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