Biting Your Tail by Iron & Wine

May your eyes be wide and seein'
May you learn (1)________ the view where you're kneelin'
Know the (2)________ of the world that you're feelin'
Is the fear of a slave

May you know how the (3)__________ was started
Want as much for the snake as the garden
Wear 'em both like a glove that you can't wain

May your (4)__________ betray your wisdom
May you get what they fail to mention
May your love be your only religion
Preach it to us all

May you lose what you (5)__________ gladly
May you worship the (6)________ and its passin'
Stars won't ever (7)________ for you to (8)__________ 'em fall

We're the smoke on a (9)____________ horizon
We're the boat on a tide that's risin'
Both the (10)________ and the pig you're untyin'
The (11)______________ (12)________ for the blade

Someday we may all be happy
Someday all make a face worth slappin'
Someday we may be (13)______________ to be laughin'
At the way we behave

May your hands be strong and willin'
May you know when to speak and to listen
May you find every (14)____________ that you're missin'
There's no check in the mail

May you end there bruised and purple
Know that (15)__________ is the shape of a circle
'Round and 'round you go
Bitin' your tail

Little children, the wind is whippin'
Short hands on a clock still tickin'
Both the egg and the red fox grinnin'
His belly full for the day

Someday we may all want nothin'
And all (16)____________ that we'll get what's comin'
Someday I'll say the world was somethin'
That we just couldn't change

May your tongue be somethin' wicked
Know your part in the (17)________ and the killin'
See straight through the (18)______________ you're kissin'
Helm (19)__________ in his hand

May (20)________ words be well worth stealin'
Put (21)________ hand on your (22)__________ (23)________ singin'
The choir's sick of the song but they've still (24)__________ stand

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