Biting Your Tail

Biting Your Tail Lyrics

Song Biting Your Tail
Artist Iron & Wine
Album Walking Far From Home
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[00:14.31] May your eyes be wide and seeing
[00:17.49] May you learn from the view where you're kneeling
[00:20.66] Know the fear of the world that you're feeling
[00:23.74] Is the fear of a slave
[00:26.78] May you know how the fight was started
[00:29.68] Want as much from the snake as the garden
[00:32.87] Wear them both like a glove that you can't wave
[00:39.12] May your mouth betray your wisdom
[00:42.04] May you get what they failed to mention
[00:45.25] May your love be your only religion
[00:48.33] Preach it to us all
[00:51.44] May you lose what you offer gladly
[00:54.36] May you worship the time and it's passing
[00:57.53] Stars wont ever wait for you to watch them fall
[01:03.92] We're the smoke on a burnt horizon
[01:06.64] We're the boat on a tide that's rising
[01:09.99] Both the post and the pig you're untying
[01:13.30] The butcher gone for the blade
[01:16.12] Someday we may all be happy
[01:19.00] Someday all make a face worth slapping
[01:22.26] Someday we may be shocked to be laughing
[01:25.72] At the way we behave
[01:28.51] May your hands be strong and willing
[01:31.58] May you know when to speak and to listen
[01:34.64] May you find every friend that you're missing
[01:37.66] There's no check in the mail
[01:40.75] May you end there bruised and purple
[01:43.73] Know that peace is the shape of a circle
[01:47.09] Around and around you go, biting your tail
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[02:18.14] Little children, the wind is whipping
[02:20.87] Short hands on a clock still ticking
[02:23.94] Both the egg and the red fox grinning
[02:27.20] His belly full for the day
[02:30.07] Someday we may all want nothing
[02:33.14] And all forget that we'll get what's coming
[02:36.20] Someday I'll say the world was something
[02:39.34] That we just couldn't change
[02:42.54] May your tongue be something wicked
[02:45.41] Know your part in the calf and the killing
[02:48.48] See straight through the captain you're kissing
[02:51.80] Helm loose in his hand
[02:54.72] May your words be well worth stealing
[02:57.79] Put your hand on your heart when singing
[03:01.20] The choir's sick of the song but they've still got to stand
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