Walkaway Joe

Mama told her baby, "Girl, take it real slow"

Girl told her mama, "Hey, I really gotta go"

"He's waitin' in the car"

Mama said, "Girl, you won't get far"

Dust are the dreams of an average Jane

Ninety miles an hour down a lover's lane

On a tank of dreams

Oh, if she coulda only seen

That fate's got cards that it don't wanna 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 the wrong kind of 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

He pulls into a station and he robs it clean

She's waitin' in the car

Oh, 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 the wrong kind of 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 arms

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 the wrong kind of paradise

But it was just another lesson in life

That boy's just a Walkaway Joe

Ooh, all he was was a Walkaway Joe

Just a Walkaway Joe