Biting Your Tail by Iron & Wine

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

May you (2)________ how the fight was started
Want as much for the snake as the garden
Wear 'em both (3)________ a glove (4)________ you can't wain

May your mouth betray (5)________ wisdom
May you get what they fail to mention
May your (6)________ be your only religion
Preach it to us all

May you lose what you offer gladly
May you (7)______________ the time and its passin'
Stars won't ever (8)________ for you to watch 'em fall

We're the smoke on a burned horizon
We're the boat on a tide that's risin'
Both the post and the pig you're untyin'
The butcher gone for the blade

Someday we may all be happy
Someday all make a face worth slappin'
Someday we may be shocked to be laughin'
At the way we behave

May your hands be (9)____________ and willin'
May you know when to speak and to listen
May you (10)________ every (11)____________ that you're missin'
There's no check in the mail

May you end there (12)______________ 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 (13)__________ 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 forget that we'll get what's comin'
Someday I'll say the (14)__________ was somethin'
That we (15)________ couldn't change

May your tongue be somethin' wicked
Know your (16)________ in the (17)________ and the killin'
See straight through the captain you're kissin'
Helm (18)__________ in his hand

May your (19)__________ be (20)________ worth stealin'
Put (21)________ hand on (22)________ heart (23)________ singin'
The choir's sick of the song but they've still gotta stand

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