• Song:

    Biting Your Tail

  • Artist:

    Iron And Wine

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STANDARD TUNING, NO CAPO

E5                    
 may your eyes be wide and seeing
A5
 may your learn from the view where you're kneeling
E5
 know the fear of the world that you're feeling
B5
 is the fear of a slave

E5
 may you know how the fight was started
A5
 want as much for the snake as the garden
E5                       B5
 wear them both like a glove
              E5
that you can wave

E5
 may your mouth betray your wisdom
A5
 may you get what they fail to mention
E5
 may your love be your only religion
B5
 preach it to us all

E5
 may you lose what you offer gladly
A5
 may you worship the time and it's passing
E5                   B5  
 stars won't ever wait for you
               E5
to watch them fall

C#5
  we're the smoke on a burnt horizon
A5
 we're a boat on a tide that's rising
E5
 both the post and the pig you're untying
B5
 butcher gone for the blade

C#5
  someday we may all be happy
A5
 someday all make a face worth slapping
E5
 someday we may be shocked to be laughing
B5
 at the way you behave

E5
 may your hands be strong and willing
A5
 may you know when to speak and to listen
E5
 may you find every friend that you're missing
B5
 there's no check in the mail

E5
 may you end up bruised and purple
A5
 know that peace is the shape of a circle
E5                    B5   
 round and round you go
E5
 biting your tail

(synth part: E5 A5 E5 B5 E5 )

C#5
 we're the journey and the wind is whipping
A5
 short hands on the clock still ticking
E5
 both the egg and the red fox grinning
B5
 his belly full for the day

C#5
 someday we may  all want nothing
A5
 and all forget that we'll get whats coming
E5
 someday all say the world was something
B5
 that we just couldnt change

E5
 may your tongue be soft and wicked
A5
 know your part in the calf and the killing
E5
 see straight through the captain you're kissing
B5
 helm lose in his hand

E5
 may your words be well worth stealing
A5
 put your hand on your heart while singing
E5                    B5
 choirs sick of the song
                     E5
but they still gotta stand
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