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Biting Your Tail by Iron & Wine

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

May your mouth betray your wisdom
May you get what they fail to mention
May your love be your (7)________ religion
Preach it to us all

May you (8)________ (9)________ you offer gladly
May you (10)______________ the time and its passin'
Stars won't ever wait for you to (11)__________ 'em fall

We're the smoke on a burned horizon
We're the boat on a (12)________ 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 (13)________ hands be strong and willin'
May you know (14)________ to speak and to listen
May you (15)________ (16)__________ friend (17)________ you're missin'
There's no check 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' 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 (18)________ 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 (20)____________ be somethin' wicked
Know your (21)________ in the (22)________ and the killin'
See straight through the (23)______________ you're kissin'
Helm (24)__________ in his hand

May (25)________ words be well worth stealin'
Put your hand on your (26)__________ (27)________ singin'
The choir's sick of the song but they've still (28)__________ stand
Answers:
(1) your(2) eyes(3) world(4) that(5) fear(6) glove(7) only(8) lose(9) what(10) worship(11) watch(12) tide(13) your(14) when(15) find(16) every(17) that(18) full(19) world(20) tongue(21) part(22) calf(23) captain(24) loose(25) your(26) heart(27) when(28) gotta