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

Thus are the dreams of an average Jane

Ninety miles an hour down a lover's lane

On a tank of dreams

Oh if she could have only seen

That fates got cards that it don't wanna show

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

Before the cold hard truth revealed what it had known

That boy was 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

All he was was a walkaway Joe

Just a walkaway Joe