Biting Your Tail by Iron & Wine

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

May you know how the (3)__________ was started
Want as much for the (4)__________ as the garden
Wear 'em both (5)________ a (6)__________ (7)________ you can't wain

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

May you lose what you offer gladly
May you (9)______________ the time 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 butcher gone for the blade

Someday we may all be happy
Someday all make a (10)________ worth slappin'
Someday we may be shocked to be laughin'
At the way we behave

May your hands be strong and willin'
May you know when to speak and to listen
May you find every (11)____________ that you're missin'
There's no (12)__________ in the mail

May you end (13)__________ bruised and purple
Know that peace is the shape of a circle
'Round and 'round you go
Bitin' (14)________ tail

Little children, the (15)________ is whippin'
Short (16)__________ on a (17)__________ (18)__________ tickin'
Both the egg and the red fox grinnin'
His (19)__________ (20)________ for the day

Someday we may all (21)________ nothin'
And all (22)____________ that 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 (23)________ (24)________ in the calf and the killin'
See straight through the captain you're kissin'
Helm (25)__________ in his hand

May your 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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