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

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WEBMISTRESS speculates:

This song starts out nice and mellow with Lindsey playing some chords on the guitar and you think it's just another melancholy song about loneliness until WHAM! You get to the shotgun line. When I first heard this song (which was written c. 1985) I immediately thought of all those school killings like the one at Columbine. The fact that the boy in the song was high above everyone, however, reminded me of another, older incident that happened in the good old state of Texas: the infamous "tower" shootings at UT about 30 years ago (A guy got up in the University of Texas clock tower with a bunch of ammunition and started shooting randomly). Anyway, it seems sad that in thirty years not only has the problem not gone away, it's gotten worse. A lot of lonely boys out there...