Biting Your Tail by Iron & Wine

May your eyes be wide and seein'
May you learn from the view (1)__________ you're kneelin'
Know the (2)________ 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 (3)________ a glove (4)________ you can't wain

May (5)________ (6)__________ betray your wisdom
May you get what they (7)________ to mention
May (8)________ love be your only 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 (9)__________ 'em fall

We're the smoke on a burned horizon
We're the (10)________ on a (11)________ 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 (12)__________ be (13)____________ and willin'
May you know (14)________ to speak and to listen
May you find every (15)____________ that you're missin'
There's no check in the mail

May you end there (16)______________ 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 full for the day

Someday we may all (17)________ nothin'
And all (18)____________ that we'll get what's comin'
Someday I'll say the (19)__________ was somethin'
That we just couldn't change

May (20)________ (21)____________ be somethin' wicked
Know (22)________ (23)________ in the (24)________ and the killin'
See straight through the captain you're kissin'
Helm loose in his hand

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

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