Demon Named Loneliness

Words & music A. McKnight, ©1994 Waves of Mountains/Catalooch Music, BMI

Verse 1
Johnny walks by the railroad tracks in the blazing valley sun,
dawn to dusk, he works his plow just as hard as anyone,
Sandy lives on the edge of town in a stone house on the hill,
senior sweethearts, young and in love, and it feels like they always will
Every year when the corn gets high he’ll be working in the fields,
this summer it’s not the same because, change is on their heels

Chorus 1
She’s wrapped in his heart tonight and it feels like it’s forever,
they’ll find true love on the banks of the Shenandoah River,
the full moon glows so bright but they don’t know it fades away,
cause tomorrow that demon named loneliness is coming their way,

Verse 2
College came and sororities seemed like Sandy’s brand new life,
graduation in the top of her class and became a lawyer’s wife,
suburban ways and Mercedes are a long way from this town
Johnny’s heart lies planted deep beneath this fertile valley ground
Every year when the corn gets high she never sees these lands,
and every summer Johnny harvests solitude she planted in his hands

Chorus 2
She’s far from his heart tonight and she’ll probably be forever,
he sits all alone on the banks of the Shenandoah River,
the full moon burns so bright and it never goes away,
cause that demon named loneliness lives with Johnny every day,
Lead

Verse 3
Johnny looked up from his crops one day to see an old familiar sight,
a long lost love in the edge of the field in a dress of lily white
Every year when the corn gets high they’ll be working on their lands,
harvesting love from seeds of sorrow that, they planted with their hands

Chorus 3
She’s back in his heart tonight and they know that it’s forever,
rediscovering lifelong love on the Shenandoah River,
the full moon glows so bright though they know it fades away,
cause that demon named loneliness has found somewhere else to stay