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 (3)________ of a slave

May you know how the (4)__________ 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 betray your wisdom
May you get what they fail to mention
May your (5)________ be your only religion
Preach it to us all

May you (6)________ what you (7)__________ gladly
May you (8)______________ the time and its passin'
Stars won't (9)________ (10)________ for you to (11)__________ 'em fall

We're the smoke on a burned horizon
We're the (12)________ 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 face worth slappin'
Someday we may be shocked to be laughin'
At the way we behave

May your hands be (13)____________ and willin'
May you know (14)________ to speak and to listen
May you find (15)__________ friend that you're missin'
There's no check in the mail

May you end there bruised and purple
Know that (16)__________ is the shape of a circle
'Round and 'round you go
Bitin' your tail

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

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

May your (22)____________ be somethin' wicked
Know your (23)________ in the calf and the killin'
See straight (24)______________ the captain you're kissin'
Helm loose in his hand

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

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