"You hear but you don't listen," Dillon had stated firmly at the tourism office where she worked for the summer.
She thought about this for a few moments, and, after smirking in recognition, she admitted, "Yes, I have to agree with you."
You're ten steps ahead when someone's talking to you, he had said.
"Are you deaf?" the priest was saying during Sunday morning mass. Saul of Tarsus was "knocked off his horse." God made him blind for three days. Then he listened to the Lord. Those who are deaf in spirit. The kid in the carriage, crying to get out. What is God trying to tell you?
The woman with the jewels whose lover had died...his horse returned but he did not. She realized all the jewels meant nothing.
And the dramatic priest ended his liturgy by praying, "Oh, Lord, we pray that we will hear you with our hearts and listen to you, and what you are trying to tell us."
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 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...!
(DESPERADO)
(The Eagles)
