Walking Without Frankie

Throttling, hurtling, just going, going And hurting, going But it's gone, it's going And not knowing where, in the ground or in the air A golden stare, whatever It's going I stop by the lake of strangled crane It was the color of copper I saw the crane operator Heard the operator swallow Saying it looks like rain And I had the operation because steady 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 reality or a land slide 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 tumor The confidence of the tumor The confidence of the tumor The confidence of the tumor The confidence I saw a beautiful drummer Get the whip of a spider Well, I wished I could've saved her I saw a little boy in serious danger Of getting old He was strapped, sitting shotgun In a cutlass cruiser, cruiser Well, I'm on the street And some say it ain't my year I hear the little voice of love, love, love, love, love Get my chance I fear the hunger coming fast Part of the world like mad ' And I don't keep them all, ended up all better Slapped some kind of sense in this That passes between us But that someone else said But that someone else's But that someone else said I last saw you, Franking, walking that Hampshire due Would've shot 5000 feet under the sky We'll work it out, too I bet you'll express, rocking or whatever Feel so far away I got my old typewriter right out ' I got the last stock filing and they forgot the word Well, they burned my trailer And they're on my tail ' I walk Frankie, I walk Frankie, I walk Frankie I walk Frankie, I walk Frankie, I walk Frankie I walk Frankie, I walk Frankie, I walk Frankie I walk Frankie, I walk Frankie, I walk Frankie I walk Frankie, I walk Frankie, I walk Frankie I walk Frankie, I walk Frankie, I walk Frankie I walk Frankie, I walk Frankie, I walk Frankie I walk Frankie, I walk Frankie, I walk Frankie --- Walking Without Frankie - Okkervil River