Biting Your Tail by Iron & Wine

May your eyes be wide and seein'
May you (1)__________ from the view where you're kneelin'
Know the fear of the (2)__________ 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 both like a (3)__________ that you can't wain

May your (4)__________ (5)____________ 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 offer gladly
May you worship the time and its passin'
Stars won't ever wait for you to watch 'em fall

We're the (6)__________ on a (7)____________ horizon
We're the (8)________ on a tide that's risin'
Both the post and the pig you're untyin'
The (9)______________ 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 (11)____________ and willin'
May you know (12)________ to speak and to listen
May you find (13)__________ (14)____________ that you're missin'
There's no (15)__________ in the mail

May you end there bruised and purple
Know that peace 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 (16)__________ (17)________ for the day

Someday we may all want nothin'
And all (18)____________ (19)________ we'll get what's comin'
Someday I'll say the world was somethin'
That we (20)________ couldn't change

May (21)________ (22)____________ be somethin' wicked
Know your part in the (23)________ and the killin'
See (24)________________ (25)______________ the captain you're kissin'
Helm loose in his hand

May your words be well (26)__________ stealin'
Put your hand on (27)________ heart when singin'
The choir's sick of the song but they've still gotta stand

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