Iron & Wine – Biting Your Tail (Ukulele)

E                    
 may your eyes be wide and seeing

A
 may your learn from the view where you're kneeling

E
 know the fear of the world that you're feeling

B
 is the fear of a slave

E
 may you know how the fight was started

A
 want as much for the snake as the garden

E                       B
 wear them both like a glove

              E
that you can wave

E
 may your mouth betray your wisdom

A
 may you get what they fail to mention

E
 may your love be your only religion

B
 preach it to us all

E
 may you lose what you offer gladly

A
 may you worship the time and it's passing

E                   B  
 stars won't ever wait for you

               E
to watch them fall

C#m
  we're the smoke on a burnt horizon

A
 we're a boat on a tide that's rising

E
 both the post and the pig you're untying

B
 butcher gone for the blade

C#m
  someday we may all be happy

A
 someday all make a face worth slapping

E
 someday we may be shocked to be laughing

B
 at the way you behave

E
 may your hands be strong and willing

A
 may you know when to speak and to listen

E
 may you find every friend that you're missing

B
 there's no check in the mail

E
 may you end up bruised and purple

A
 know that peace is the shape of a circle

E                    B   
 round and round you go

E
 biting your tail

C#m
 we're the journey and the wind is whipping

A
 short hands on the clock still ticking

E
 both the egg and the red fox grinning

B
 his belly full for the day

C#m
 someday we may  all want nothing

A
 and all forget that we'll get whats coming

E
 someday all say the world was something

B
 that we just couldnt change

E
 may your tongue be soft and wicked

A
 know your part in the calf and the killing

E
 see straight through the captain you're kissing

B
 helm lose in his hand

E
 may your words be well worth stealing

A
 put your hand on your heart while singing

E                    B
 choirs sick of the song

                     E
but they still gotta stand