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, ninety miles an hour down a lover's lane, on a tank of dreams
Oh if she could have only seen, that fate's got cars that it don't want to show, and that boy's just a walk away Joe, born to be a leaver
Tell you from the word girl, 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 walk away Joe
Now just a little while into Abilene, pulls into a station and he robs it clean, she's waiting in the car, oh underneath the Texaco storm
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 walk away Joe, born to be a leaver, tell you from the word girl, 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 walk away Joe
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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 reaching on, for the cold hard truth revealed what he had known
That boy's just a walk away Joe, born to be a leaver, tell you from the word girl, destined to deceive her, he's the wrong kind of paradise, but it was just another lesson in life, that boy was a walk away Joe
All he was, was a walk away Joe, walk away Joe, he was a walk away Joe
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