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" 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 But fates 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 Pulls into a station and he robs it clean She's waitin' in the car Underneath the Texaco star She only wanted love, never bargained 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 'Cause 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 was a walkaway Joe All he was was a walkaway Joe Ooh, walkaway Joe He was a walkaway Joe