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Walking Without Frankie Lyrics

Throttling, hurtling
Just going, going
And hurting knowing
That it's gone and it's going

And not knowing where
In the ground or in the air
Up the golden stair
Or whatever
It's going

I stopped by the Lake
Of the Strangled Crane
It was the color of copper
I saw the crane operator
I heard the operator's father
Say, "It looks like rain."

And I had the operation
Because he said he was a doctor
And I was in pain

"Freedom," or whatever
Whatever you call it
It's a stairway or a slow ride
It's "Rhiannon" or "Landslide"

I heard the bartender died
Of a broken heart
And a shattered pelvis
He was buried in Kansas
It was part of a promotion

They were trying to undermine
The confidence of the consumer
Confidence of the consumer
The confidence of the consumer
The confidence of the consumer
The confidence

I saw a beautiful drummer
In the web of a spider
Well I wished I could save him
I saw a little boy
In serious danger
Of getting older
And he was trapped sitting shotgun
In a Cutlass Cruiser
Cruiser

When I'm on the street
And something's singing in my ear
I hear a little voice all thumpthumpthumpthumpthump through my chest
I feel the hummingbird-fast heart in there whirring like mad
Got a spirit feeling swimming around my head
And I haven't even had any cocaine yet

And I don't even want any though, I'll bet
It's like some kind of sentence
That passes between us
That someone else said
That someone else said
That someone else said

I last saw you, Frankie
Walking through that New Hampshire dew
And when you shot five thousand feet up into the grey sky
Well, what could I do?
Now I bet you're in space
Write me, or whatever
I feel so far away

Like I'm an old typewriter
Out on the showroom floor
Like I'm the Last Starfighter
And they forgot the war

And they burned my trailer
And they're on my tail end
And I'm out on tour

Hey, I want Frankie, I want Frankie
I want Frankie, I want Frankie
I want Frankie, I want Frankie
I want Frankie, I want Frankie
I want Frankie, I want Frankie
I want Frankie, I want Frankie
I want Frankie, I want Frankie
I want Frankie, I want Frankie
I want Frankie, I want Frankie
I want Frankie, I want Frankie
I want Frankie, I want Frankie
I want Frankie, I want Frankie
Oh man, all right

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