Biting Your Tail by Iron & Wine

May (1)________ (2)________ be (3)________ and seein'
May you learn (4)________ the view where you're kneelin'
Know the fear of the (5)__________ that you're feelin'
Is the fear of a slave

May you (6)________ how the fight was started
Want as much for the snake as the garden
Wear 'em both like a glove that you can't wain

May your mouth (7)____________ your wisdom
May you get what they fail to mention
May your love be (8)________ (9)________ religion
Preach it to us all

May you lose what you offer gladly
May you worship the time and its passin'
Stars won't (10)________ wait for you to (11)__________ '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 butcher (12)________ 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 (13)__________ be strong and willin'
May you know when to speak and to listen
May you find (14)__________ (15)____________ that you're missin'
There's no check in the mail

May you end (16)__________ (17)______________ 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 (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 forget that we'll get what's comin'
Someday I'll say the world was somethin'
That we (19)________ couldn't change

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

May your words be well (22)__________ stealin'
Put your hand on (23)________ (24)__________ when singin'
The choir's sick of the song but they've (25)__________ gotta stand

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