Walter Egan - The Loneliest Boy lyrics

Away in the darkness past midnight As dim as a candle there burns a light There sits a boy alone in his room He reads magazines by the light of the moon And the loneliest boy can always be found In the room upstairs when the sun goes down He's the loneliest boy in a lonely town He's wary of strangers, so quiet and shy His neighbors would call him an average guy He clings to the world he knows so well And what he feels really no one can tell And the loneliest boy can always be found In the room upstairs when the sun goes down He's the loneliest boy in a lonely town It happened that cold gray afternoon Alone in the window of his lonely room A solitary boy with a long black gun A shot rang out and the deed was done So the loneliest boy just lookin' for love Shot down a man from a window above And the loneliest boy, so quiet and shy Alone in his cell just a-waitin' to die He's the loneliest boy in this whole damn town