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 fear of the world (2)________ 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 glove that you can't wain

May your (5)__________ (6)____________ (7)________ wisdom
May you get what (8)________ fail to mention
May (9)________ love be your only religion
Preach it to us all

May you (10)________ what you offer gladly
May you (11)______________ the time and its passin'
Stars won't ever wait for you to watch 'em fall

We're the (12)__________ on a (13)____________ horizon
We're the (14)________ 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 strong and willin'
May you know when to speak and to listen
May you (15)________ every (16)____________ (17)________ you're missin'
There's no check in the mail

May you end there bruised and purple
Know (18)________ (19)__________ is the shape of a circle
'Round and 'round you go
Bitin' (20)________ tail

Little children, the (21)________ is whippin'
Short (22)__________ on a clock still tickin'
Both the egg and the red fox grinnin'
His (23)__________ full for the day

Someday we may all (24)________ nothin'
And all (25)____________ that we'll get what's comin'
Someday I'll say the world was somethin'
That we (26)________ couldn't change

May your tongue be somethin' wicked
Know your (27)________ in the calf and the killin'
See straight through the captain you're kissin'
Helm loose in his hand

May your words be well worth stealin'
Put (28)________ hand on your (29)__________ when singin'
The choir's sick of the song but they've still gotta stand

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