Mama told her baby girl take it real slow

Girl told her momma hey I really gotta go

He's waiting 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

That fate's got cards that it don't wanna show

That boy's just a walk away Joe

Born to be a leaver tell you from the word go

Destined to decieve 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 waiting 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 his

She's only seventeen and there ain't no reasoning

So she'll ride this ride as far as it can go

That boy's just a walk away Joe

Born to be a leaver tell you from the word go

Destined to decieve 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 to soon

And reaches for his arms

But she'll just keep reaching on

For the cold hard truth revealed what it had known

That boy's just a walk away Joe

Born to be a leaver tell you from the word go

Destined to decieve her

He's the wrong kind of paradise

But it was just another lesson in life

That boy's just a walkaway Joe

Mmm yeah

All he was was a walkaway Joe