Mama told her baby,
"girl, take it real slow"
Girl told her mama,
"hey, I really gotta go
"he’s waitin’ in the car"
Mama said,
"girl, you won’t get far"

This is the story of an average jane,
Ninety miles an hour down a lover’s lane
On a tank of dreams
Oh, if she could have only seen
But fates got plans that it don’t wanna show ’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

Just a little while into abilene,
He pulls into a station and he robs it clean
She’s waitin’ in the car
Underneath the texaco star

She only wanted love,
Never bargained 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 will go, but

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 arms
But she’ll just keep reachin’ on
’cause 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’s just a walkaway joe

All he was was a walkaway joe
Ooh, walkaway joe
Ooh, he was a walkaway joe
Ooh, walkaway joe
Yes, he was a walkaway joe