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 a wrong kinda 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 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 a wrong kinda 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 a wrong kinda paradise  But it was just another lesson in life  That boy was a walkaway Joe    mmmm yeah   all he was was a walkaway joe  walkaway joe  he was a walkaway joe