Momma 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
She's gonna know it in a matter of time

That boy's just a walkaway Joe