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Biting Your Tail by Iron & Wine

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

May (5)________ mouth (6)____________ (7)________ wisdom
May you get what they fail to mention
May your love be your only religion
Preach it to us all

May you (8)________ 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 (10)__________ on a (11)____________ horizon
We're the boat on a tide that's risin'
Both the (12)________ and the pig you're untyin'
The (13)______________ 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 hands be strong and willin'
May you (14)________ (15)________ to speak and to listen
May you (16)________ every (17)____________ that you're missin'
There's no (18)__________ in the mail

May you end there (19)______________ and purple
Know that peace is the (20)__________ of a circle
'Round and 'round you go
Bitin' your tail

Little children, the wind is whippin'
Short (21)__________ on a clock still tickin'
Both the egg and the red fox grinnin'
His belly (22)________ for the day

Someday we may all (23)________ nothin'
And all forget (24)________ we'll get what's comin'
Someday I'll say the world was somethin'
That we just couldn't change

May your tongue be somethin' wicked
Know (25)________ 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 worth stealin'
Put your hand on (26)________ heart when singin'
The choir's sick of the song but they've still gotta stand
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