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Walkaway Joe Lyrics by Brandon Lay

2020

[Verse 1]
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"
[Verse 2]
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 fates got cards that it don't wanna show
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 3]
Now just a little while into Abilene
He pulls into a station and he robs it clean
She's waitin' in the car
Oh underneath the Texaco star
[Verse 4]
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
[Chorus]
'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
[Verse 4]
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
Before the cold hard truth revealed what it had known
[Chorus]
That boy was 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
[Outro]
All he was was a walkaway Joe
Just a walkaway Joe
Credits
Brandon Lay

Brandon Lay

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