The Loneliest Boy - Walter Egan, Chris Darrow and Lindsey Buckingham

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