Desperados Under the Eaves

Zevon wrote and performed it, and it closes the album at 4:45 (4:47 on the song's page). Medialoper's Jim Connelly calls it the last song of a triptych with "Carmelita" and "Join Me in L.A.", and describes a narrator at rock bottom in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel who flees through a bathroom window to avoid the unpaid bill; Crystal Zevon reportedly said Warren did this himself, and it may be apocryphal that he went back to pay and was asked for a copy of the album instead. Sid Sharp played strings, Zevon conducted them, and Carl Wilson, Billy Hinsche, Jackson Browne and JD Souther sang backing vocals. At the end the narrator hums the air conditioner's drone as the strings swell, per Joseph Knox in Lit Hub.

LA Weekly ranked it tenth in its 2014 list of the 20 best songs ever written about L.A., and James Campion noted a similarity to the Eagles' "Hotel California" (1977). We found no chart history, verified quote from Zevon about it, live history, covers or samples.