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Biting Your Tail by Iron & Wine

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

May you (3)________ 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 betray your wisdom
May you get what they fail to mention
May your (4)________ be (5)________ only religion
Preach it to us all

May you lose what you offer gladly
May you (6)______________ the time and its passin'
Stars won't ever wait for you to (7)__________ 'em fall

We're the smoke on a (8)____________ horizon
We're the (9)________ on a tide that's risin'
Both the (10)________ and the pig you're untyin'
The butcher (11)________ 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 (12)__________ be strong and willin'
May you (13)________ when to (14)__________ and to listen
May you find every friend that you're missin'
There's no (15)__________ in the mail

May you end there (16)______________ and purple
Know that peace is the (17)__________ of a circle
'Round and 'round you go
Bitin' your tail

Little children, the (18)________ is whippin'
Short hands on a (19)__________ 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 (21)________ we'll get what's comin'
Someday I'll say the world was somethin'
That we (22)________ couldn't change

May your tongue be somethin' wicked
Know (23)________ 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 (24)________ hand on your heart (25)________ singin'
The choir's sick of the song but they've still gotta stand
Answers:
(1) eyes(2) learn(3) know(4) love(5) your(6) worship(7) watch(8) burned(9) boat(10) post(11) gone(12) hands(13) know(14) speak(15) check(16) bruised(17) shape(18) wind(19) clock(20) want(21) that(22) just(23) your(24) your(25) when