Biting Your Tail by Iron & Wine

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

May you know how the fight was started
Want as much for the snake as the garden
Wear 'em (3)________ (4)________ a (5)__________ that you can't wain

May your (6)__________ 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 (7)__________ gladly
May you worship the time and its passin'
Stars won't ever wait for you to watch 'em fall

We're the smoke on a burned horizon
We're the (8)________ on a tide that's risin'
Both the (9)________ and the pig you're untyin'
The butcher gone for the blade

Someday we may all be happy
Someday all make a face (10)__________ slappin'
Someday we may be shocked 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 friend (11)________ you're missin'
There's no (12)__________ in the mail

May you end there bruised and purple
Know (13)________ peace is the (14)__________ of a circle
'Round and 'round you go
Bitin' your tail

Little children, the wind is whippin'
Short (15)__________ 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 (17)__________ was somethin'
That we (18)________ couldn't change

May (19)________ tongue be somethin' wicked
Know your part in the calf and the killin'
See straight through the captain you're kissin'
Helm (20)__________ in his hand

May (21)________ (22)__________ be well (23)__________ stealin'
Put your hand on (24)________ (25)__________ (26)________ singin'
The choir's sick of the song but they've still gotta stand

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