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 world 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 (2)__________ that you can't wain

May your mouth betray your wisdom
May you get what they fail to mention
May (3)________ (4)________ be your (5)________ religion
Preach it to us all

May you lose what you (6)__________ gladly
May you (7)______________ the (8)________ 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 tide that's risin'
Both the post and the pig you're untyin'
The (9)______________ (10)________ for the blade

Someday we may all be happy
Someday all (11)________ a (12)________ worth slappin'
Someday we may be (13)______________ to be laughin'
At the way we behave

May your hands be (14)____________ and willin'
May you know (15)________ to (16)__________ and to listen
May you (17)________ every friend that you're missin'
There's no check in the mail

May you end there bruised and purple
Know that (18)__________ 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 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 (19)__________ was somethin'
That we just couldn't change

May your tongue be somethin' wicked
Know your (20)________ in the calf and the killin'
See straight through the (21)______________ you're kissin'
Helm (22)__________ in his hand

May (23)________ words be (24)________ worth stealin'
Put your (25)________ on your (26)__________ when singin'
The choir's (27)________ of the song but they've still gotta stand

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