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Biting Your Tail by Iron & Wine

May your (1)________ be wide and seein'
May you learn from the view (2)__________ you're kneelin'
Know the fear of the (3)__________ (4)________ you're feelin'
Is the fear of a slave

May you (5)________ how the (6)__________ was started
Want as much for the snake as the garden
Wear 'em (7)________ (8)________ a glove that you can't wain

May your mouth betray your wisdom
May you get what they (9)________ to mention
May your (10)________ be your only religion
Preach it to us all

May you (11)________ what you (12)__________ gladly
May you worship the (13)________ 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 (14)______________ gone for the blade

Someday we may all be happy
Someday all make a (15)________ (16)__________ slappin'
Someday we may be shocked to be laughin'
At the way we behave

May your hands be strong and willin'
May you (17)________ when to (18)__________ and to listen
May you find every friend that 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' (19)________ tail

Little children, the wind is whippin'
Short hands on a clock still tickin'
Both the egg and the red fox grinnin'
His belly (20)________ for the day

Someday we may all want nothin'
And all forget that we'll get what's comin'
Someday I'll say the (21)__________ was somethin'
That we just couldn't change

May (22)________ tongue be somethin' wicked
Know your part in the calf and the killin'
See straight through the captain you're kissin'
Helm (23)__________ in his hand

May your words be well (24)__________ stealin'
Put your hand on your heart (25)________ singin'
The choir's (26)________ of the song but they've (27)__________ gotta stand
Answers:
(1) eyes(2) where(3) world(4) that(5) know(6) fight(7) both(8) like(9) fail(10) love(11) lose(12) offer(13) time(14) butcher(15) face(16) worth(17) know(18) speak(19) your(20) full(21) world(22) your(23) loose(24) worth(25) when(26) sick(27) still