(Verse 1) The velvet clock dropped its mainspring in the grease, A rubber-toothed dollar trying to buy a little peace! Johnny’s in the corner with a nose full of salt, Shouting at the mirror, saying everything’s a fault! He’s strumming on a broomstick, screaming out of tune, Trying to catch a cockroach with a silver spoon. Not me! I got the iron shoe, I got the wooden stride, Walking past the circus where the plastic lions hide. They got a price tag stuck to the morning air, A tax on the shadow, a tariff on the stare! I snapped the golden leash, threw the collar in the pond, Stepping right through to the dark blue beyond! (Chorus) Frank & Free! That’s the hexagonal key! A crooked-legged bumblebee swimming in the sea! Why are you doing it that way? Isn't it wrong what you gotta say? Keep on walking, step by step through the kerosene, Frank & Free... cleanest thing you ever seen! (Verse 2) They got sixty-four suits in a ten-cent crate, Pushing paper buttons at the middle-gate! Telling me to measure out my steps by the inch, While the copper-plated monkey tries to give my sleeve a pinch! Nah! I’m a fast 'n bulbous soul on an open track, No saddle on my spine, no monkey on my back! Unchained, unvarnished, wild as a stove, Living in the middle of a fried-egg grove! No boss, no master, no velvet cage, Ripping out the numbers from the printed page! (Chorus) Frank & Free! That’s the hexagonal key! A crooked-legged bumblebee swimming in the sea! Why are you doing it that way? Isn't it wrong what you gotta say? Keep on walking, step by step through the kerosene, Frank & Free... cleanest thing you ever seen! (Outro) (Gasp, slide guitar shrieks, tin pan drops) Frank & Free... Fast 'n bulbous! Tight like a dime. Walk that stride, don't pay the toll. (Grumble, saxophone squeak, dead stop)
