| Throttling, hurtling — just going, going
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| And hurting knowing that it’s gone, and it’s going
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| And not knowing where — in the ground or in the air
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| Up the golden stair (or whatever) — it’s going
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| I stopped by the Lake of the Strangled Crane
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| It was the color of copper
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| I saw the crane operator
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| I heard the operator’s father say, «It looks like rain.»
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| And I had the operation because he said he was a doctor
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| And I was in pain
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| «Freedom,» or whatever, whatever you call it
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| It’s a stairway, or a slow ride
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| It’s «Rhiannon» or «Landslide»
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| I hear the bartender died of a broken heart and a shattered pelvis
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| He was buried in Kansas
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| It was part of a promotion
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| They were trying to undermine the confidence of the consumer
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| I saw a beautiful drummer in the web of a spider
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| And I wanted to save him
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| I saw a little boy in serious danger of growing older
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| And he was trapped sitting shotgun in a Cutlass Cruiser
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| When I’m on the street, something’s singing in my ear
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| And I hear a little voice all thumpthumpthumpthump-thumping in my chest
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| And I feel the hummingbird-fast heart in there whirring like mad
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| Got a spiriting feeling swimming around my head
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| And I haven’t even had any cocaine yet
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| And I don’t even want any though, I bet
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| It’s like some kind of sentence that passes between us that someone else said
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| I last saw you, Frankie, walking through that New Hampshire dew
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| And when you shot five thousand feet up into the grey sky, what could I do?
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| Now I bet you’re in space
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| Write me, or whatever
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| I feel so far away
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| Like I’m an old typewriter, out on the showroom floor
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| Like I’m the Last Starfighter and they forgot the war
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| And they burned my trailer
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| And they’re on my tail, And I’m out on tour
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| And I want Frankie
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| I want Frankie
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| I want Frankie
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| I want Frankie
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| I want Frankie
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| I want Frankie
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| I want Frankie
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| Oh man. | 
| All right |