Biting Your Tail by Iron & Wine

May (1)________ (2)________ be wide and seein'
May you learn from the view (3)__________ you're kneelin'
Know the fear of the (4)__________ (5)________ 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 (6)________ a (7)__________ that you can't wain

May your (8)__________ betray (9)________ wisdom
May you get (10)________ (11)________ fail to mention
May (12)________ love be (13)________ (14)________ 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 (15)__________ on a burned horizon
We're the boat on a tide that's risin'
Both the post and the pig you're untyin'
The (16)______________ gone for the blade

Someday we may all be happy
Someday all make a face worth slappin'
Someday we may be (17)______________ 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 that you're missin'
There's no check in the mail

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

Little children, the (19)________ is whippin'
Short (20)__________ on a (21)__________ (22)__________ 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 (23)__________ was somethin'
That we just couldn't change

May your (24)____________ be somethin' wicked
Know your part 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 (25)________ (26)________ on your (27)__________ when singin'
The choir's sick of the song but they've still gotta stand

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