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If I mutter Or I stutter Understand my dear that between my ears There's a fear so real that it can't get clear Same day A whole different way Above my neck and you detect That you reflect the bliss perfect Been around a long time and I've seen the ups and downs Seen the fall of heroes, I've seen the rise of clowns School of hard knocks This tackle box (Tackle box) From shore to shore to shore (Shore to shore) My head of shots (Head of shots) This tackle box (Tackle box) Like my brain's at daily war (Indeed) You can spoil the brain broth with too many cooks Call it tackle box 'cause it's got so many hooks Internal dialogue with Socrates and Plato Try to be alive but sometimes I'm afraid-o My spiritual adviser sympathizer could be wiser Got a mantra in my head every morning when in bed Internal dialogue with Strummer & Jones The spirit vs. bones, surrounded or alone Nomad home, strange at gnome, concrete foam Pros or comb Internal dialogue with Lincoln and Booth Fiction or truth, the law and Lenny Bruce Astute or confused, facts or fake news The don'ts and the do's and the win or the lose Internal dialogue like lawyer and client Condemned to those flyin', meek or defiant Denier of science, microscopical giant I try to be compliant but my conscience won't abide it And I been around, seen the ups and downs Seen the fall of heroes, I've seen the rise of clowns School of hard knocks This tackle box (Tackle box) From shore to shore to shore (Shore to shore) My head of shots (Head of shots) This tackle box (Tackle box) And my brain's at daily war (Better) You can spoil the brain broth with too many cooks You call it tackle box because how come? It's got so many hooks He lingers over some pictures for what seems like days There's a light rain that ticks at the windows like streamless hammers on an abandoned piano The dawn is breaking He can smell coffee from another apartment But he hears no birds And it doesn't look like the sun will be out today A loud booming in the distance He prays that it is just thunder And the occasional pops, well, that is to be expected He remembers his own boyhood and the image of the animated cartoon Top Cat comes to mind The alleys, the friends, the great plans The bright bold colors with sharp defined unambiguous lines Been around a long time and I seen the ups and downs Seen the fall of heroes, I've seen the rise of clowns School of hard knocks This tackle box (Tackle box) From shore to shore to shore My head of shots (Shots) This tackle box (Tackle box) And my brain's at daily war (War) You can spoil the brain broth with too many cooks Call it tackle box 'cause it's got so many hooks Clowns