Biting Your Tail by Iron & Wine

May your (1)________ be (2)________ and seein'
May you (3)__________ from the view (4)__________ you're kneelin'
Know the (5)________ of the (6)__________ that you're feelin'
Is the (7)________ of a slave

May you know how the (8)__________ was started
Want as much for the snake as the garden
Wear 'em both like a (9)__________ that you can't wain

May (10)________ mouth betray your wisdom
May you get (11)________ they fail to mention
May your (12)________ be your (13)________ religion
Preach it to us all

May you lose (14)________ 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 smoke on a burned horizon
We're the boat on a (15)________ 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 find every friend (16)________ you're missin'
There's no (17)__________ 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' (18)________ 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 forget that we'll get what's comin'
Someday I'll say the world was somethin'
That we (19)________ couldn't change

May (20)________ tongue be somethin' wicked
Know your part in the (21)________ and the killin'
See (22)________________ through the captain you're kissin'
Helm loose in his hand

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

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