I slept with Sable when she was 13   Her parents were too rich to do anything   She rocked her way around L.A.   'Til a New York guy carried her away      Look away, look away      Now, he was blond and she was dark   They called him Thunder 'cause he had the spark   The dream he dreamed was straight and pure   But the confusion of life was gonna get him for sure      Look away, look away      They shared their clothes and their cowboy boots   Left them all over the floor while they dyed their roots   They live the dream and they went non-stop   They did okay 'til the band broke up      Look away, look away   Look away, look away   Look away      Unfortunately, the needle broke   Their rock and roll love like a bicycle spoke   I found her in a back street with her looks half gone   She was sellin' something that I was on      Look away, look away      Now, Thunder and me did not part friends   What we done once, I wouldn't do again   So he stayed with the pure dream and followed the moon   Till the drugs in his body made his mind a cartoon      Look away, look away      So a few years later Thunder died broke   Sable had a baby back at her folks   Me, I went straight and serious too   There wasn't much else that I could do      I look away, look away      So now that I'm straight, I'm settled too   I eat and I sleep and I work like you   I got lots of feelings but I hold them down   That's a way I can cope with this shitty town      I look away, look away   Look away, look away