Michael Ray - Walkaway Joe (The Bootlegger Sessions)

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"

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

That boy's 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's just a walkway Joe

Just a little while into Abilene He pulls into a station, he robs it clean She's waitin' in the car Underneath the Texaco star

She only wanted love, never bargained for this But she can't help but love him for the way he is She's only seventeen And there ain't no reasoning And she'll ride this ride as far as it will go

'Cause that boy's 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's just a walkway Joe

Somewhere in a roadside motel room Alone in the silence, she wakes up too soon Reaches for his arms But she'll just keep reachin' on For the cold hard truth revealed what it had known

That boy's just a walkway Joe Born to be a leaver, tell you from the word "go" He's destined to deceive her, he's the wrong kind of paradise But it was just another lesson in life That boy's a walkway Joe

Yeah, all he was was a walkway Joe That boy was just a walkway Joe