Iron & Wine – Biting Your Tail (Guitar)

C
 May your eyes be wide and seeing

F
 May your learn from the view where you're kneeling

C
 Know the fear of the world that you're feeling

G
 Is the fear of a slave

C
 May you know how the fight was started

F
 Want as much for the snake as the garden

C                       G
 Wear them both like a glove

               C
 That you can wave

C
 May your mouth betray your wisdom

F
 May you get what they fail to mention

C
 May your love be your only religion

G
 Preach it to us all

C
 May you lose what you offer gladly

F
 May you worship the time and it's passing

C                   G
 stars won't ever wait for you

                C
 to watch them fall

Am
 We're the smoke on a burnt horizon

F
 We're the boat on a tide that's rising

C
 Both the post and the pig you're untying

G
 Butcher gone for the blade

Am
 Someday we may all be happy

F
 Someday all make a face worth slapping

C
 Someday we may be shocked to be laughing

G
 At the way we behave

C
 May your hands be strong and willing

F
 May you know when to speak and to listen

C
 May you find every friend that you're missing

G
 There's no check in the mail

C
 May you end up bruised and purple

F
 Know that peace is the shape of a circle

C                    G
 Round and round you go

              C
 Biting your tail

Am
 We're the children and the wind is whipping

F
 The short hands on the clock still ticking

C
 Both the egg and the red fox grinning

G
 His belly full for the day

Am
 Someday we may all want nothing

F
 And all forget that we'll get what's coming

C
 Someday all say the world was something

G
 That we just couldn't change

C
 May your tongue be soft and wicked

F
 Know your part in the calf and the killing

C
 See straight through the captain you're kissing

G
 Helm loose in his hand

C
 May your words be well worth stealing

F
 Put your hand on your heart while singing

C                    G
 Choirs sick of the song

                      C
 But they still gotta stand