Biting Your Tail by Iron & Wine

May your eyes be (1)________ and seein'
May you learn (2)________ the view 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 (5)________ you can't wain

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

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

We're the (11)__________ on a burned horizon
We're the boat on a tide that's risin'
Both the post and the pig you're untyin'
The (12)______________ (13)________ for the blade

Someday we may all be happy
Someday all make a face worth slappin'
Someday we may be (14)______________ to be laughin'
At the way we behave

May your (15)__________ be strong and willin'
May you (16)________ (17)________ to speak and to listen
May you find (18)__________ friend that you're missin'
There's no check in the mail

May you end there (19)______________ 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 hands on a clock still tickin'
Both the egg and the red fox grinnin'
His belly full for the day

Someday we may all (20)________ nothin'
And all forget that we'll get what's comin'
Someday I'll say the world was somethin'
That we just couldn't change

May (21)________ tongue be somethin' wicked
Know your part in the calf and the killin'
See (22)________________ through the (23)______________ you're kissin'
Helm (24)__________ in his hand

May your words be (25)________ (26)__________ stealin'
Put your hand on your heart (27)________ singin'
The choir's (28)________ of the song but they've still gotta stand

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