Biting Your Tail by Iron & Wine

May your eyes be wide and seein'
May you (1)__________ from the (2)________ 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 (3)__________ was started
Want as much for the snake as the garden
Wear 'em both (4)________ a glove that you can't wain

May your mouth (5)____________ your wisdom
May you get what they fail to mention
May your love be your only religion
Preach it to us all

May you lose (6)________ you (7)__________ gladly
May you worship the (8)________ and its passin'
Stars won't (9)________ wait for you to (10)__________ 'em fall

We're the smoke on a (11)____________ horizon
We're the boat on a tide that's risin'
Both the (12)________ and the pig you're untyin'
The butcher gone for the blade

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

May (14)________ hands be strong and willin'
May you (15)________ when to speak and to listen
May you find (16)__________ (17)____________ 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 (19)________ nothin'
And all (20)____________ that we'll get what's comin'
Someday I'll say the (21)__________ was somethin'
That we just couldn't change

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

May your words be well (23)__________ stealin'
Put your hand on your heart when singin'
The choir's sick of the (24)________ but they've still gotta stand

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