Okkervil River - 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 hear 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

I saw a beautiful drummer in
The web of a spider and I wanted to save him
I saw a little boy in
Serious danger of growing older
And he was trapped sitting shotgun
In a Cutlass Cruiser

When I'm on the street
Something's singing in my ear
And I hear a little voice
All thumpthumpthumpthump-thumping in my chest
And I feel the hummingbird-fast heart
In there whirring like mad
Got a spiriting feeling swimming
Around my head
And I haven't even had any cocaine yet
And I don't even want any though, I bet
It's like some kind of sentence that passes
Between us 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, 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, and I'm out on tour
And 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