Momma told her baby girl take it real slow
Girl told her momma hey I really gotta go
He's waiting 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
That fate's got cards that it don't want to show
That boy is 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 is just a walkaway joe
Just a little while into abilene
Pulls into a station and he robs it clean
She's waiting in the car
Underneath the texaco star
She only wanted love didn't bother 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 her own sad motel room
Alone in the silence
She wakes up too soon and reaches for his arm
But she'll just keep reaching 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
Oh yeah
All he was was a walkaway joe
Oh
Walkaway joe he was a walkaway joe
Hmm