Biting Your Tail by Iron & Wine

May (1)________ eyes be wide and seein'
May you learn from the view (2)__________ you're kneelin'
Know the fear of the world that you're feelin'
Is the fear of a slave

May you know how the (3)__________ was started
Want as much for the snake as the garden
Wear 'em both like a glove that you can't wain

May your (4)__________ betray your wisdom
May you get (5)________ they fail to mention
May your love be your (6)________ religion
Preach it to us all

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

We're the smoke on a (9)____________ horizon
We're the (10)________ 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 (11)________ worth slappin'
Someday we may be (12)______________ to be laughin'
At the way we behave

May your hands be (13)____________ and willin'
May you know (14)________ to speak and to listen
May you find every friend that you're missin'
There's no check in the mail

May you end (15)__________ bruised and purple
Know that (16)__________ is the shape of a circle
'Round and 'round you go
Bitin' (17)________ tail

Little children, the wind is whippin'
Short (18)__________ 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 (19)____________ that we'll get what's comin'
Someday I'll say the world was somethin'
That we just couldn't change

May your (20)____________ 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 (21)__________ be well worth stealin'
Put your hand on your (22)__________ when singin'
The choir's sick of the (23)________ but they've (24)__________ gotta stand

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