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 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 te aco 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 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 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

ohhhh a walk away joe

a walk away joe