Walkaway Joe

Mama told her baby girl take it real slow
Girl told her mama hey I really gotta go
He's waiting in the car
Mama said girl you won't get far
Thus are the dreams of an average Jane
90 Miles an hour down a lover's lane
On a tank of dreams
Oh if she could have only seen
That fate's got cards that it don't want to show

And that boy is just a walkway 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 is just a walkway Joe

Now just a little while into Abilene
He pulls into the station and he robs it clean
She's waiting in the car
Oh underneath a 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 is just a walkway 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 is just a walkway 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 reaching on
For the cold hard truth revealed what it had known

That boy is just a walkway 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 is just a walkway Joe

All he was was a walkway Joe
Just a walkway Joe