Mama told her baby
girl take it real slow
Girl told her momma
Hey, I really gotta go
He's waitin' in the car
Momma said girl
you won't get far
Thus are the dreams
of an average Jane
Ninety miles an hour
down a lovers lane
On a tank of dreams
Oh, If she could've
only seen.
But fate's got cards
that it don't
want to show
And that boy's just
A walkaway Joe
Born to be a leaver
Tell you from the word go
Destined to deceive her
He's a wrong
kinda paradise
She's gonna know
it in a matter of time
That boy's just
a walkaway Joe
Now just a little
while into Abilene
Pulls into a station
and he robs it clean
She's waitin' in the car
Underneath the
Texaco Star
She only wanted love,
didn't bargain for this
She can't help but love
him for the way he is
She's only seventeen
And there ain't
no reasoning
So she'll ride this ride
as far as it can go
Cause that boy's just
A walkaway Joe
Born to be a leaver
Tell you from the word go
Destined to deceive her
He's a wrong
kinda paradise
She's gonna know
it in a matter of time
That boy's just
a walkaway Joe
Somewhere in a roadside
motel room
Alone in the silence
she wakes up too soon
And reaches for his arm
But she'll just keep
reachin' on
For the cold hard truth
revealed what it
had known
That boy's just
A walkaway Joe
Born to be a leaver
Tell you from the word go
Destined to deceive her
He's a wrong kinda
paradise. But it was just
another lesson in life. That
boy was a walkaway Joe
All he was
was a walkaway Joe
Ooh ooh
He was a
walkaway Joe