May your eyes be wide and seeing
May you learn from the view where you're kneeling
Know the fear of the world that you're feeling
Is the fear of a slave
May you know how the fight was started
Won' as much the snake as the garden
Wear them both like a glove that you can't wain
May your mouth betray your wisdom
May you get what they failed to mention
May your love be your only religion
Preach it to us all
May you lose what you offer gladly
May you worship the time and it's passing
Stars wont ever wait for you to watch them fall
We're the smoke on a burned horizon
We're the boat on a tide that's rising
Both the post and the pig you're tying
Put your gun for the blade
Someday we may all be happy
Someday all make a face worth slapping
Someday we may be shocked to be laughing
At the way we behave
May your hands be strong and willing
May you know when to speak and to listen
May you find every friend that you're missing
There's no check in the mail
May you end there bruised and purple
Know that peace is the shape of a circle
Around and around you go, biting your tail
Little children, the wind is whipping
Short hands on a clock still ticking
Both the egg and the red fox grinning
His belly full for the day
Someday we may all want nothing
And all together we'll get what's coming
Someday I'll say the world was something
That we just couldn't change
May your tongue be something wicked
Know your part in the calf and the killing
See straight through the captain you're kissing
Helm loose in his hand
May your words be well worth stealing
Put your hand on your heart when singing
The choir's sick of the song but they've still got to stand
Biting Your Tail
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Always on My Mind (Brenda Lee cover) Annie by the Water Arms of a Thief Belated Promise Ring Beyond the Fence Big Burned Hand Black Candle Boy with a Coin Broken Spinning Wheel Carousel Carried Home Cattle on Calvary Chelsea Hotel (Leonard Cohen cover) Dark Eyes (Bob Dylan cover) Die Expecting to Fly (Buffalo Springfield cover) Flightless Bird, American Mouth Foreign Photos Glad Man Singing Godless Brother in Love Half Moon Halfway to Richmond Homeward, These Shoes House by the Sea In Your Own Time Innocent Bones Kingdom of the Animals Lean Into the Light Loretta Love Is the Foundation (Loretta Lynn cover) Lovesong of the Buzzard Mary Anne Me and Lazarus Monkeys Uptown Not Afraid to Die Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car Peace Beneath the City Place to Be (Nick Drake cover) Postcard Rabbit Will Run Resurrection Fern Sacrifice Burning Serpent Charmer Stolen Houses (Die) Summer in Savannah The Devil Never Sleeps Tree by the River Walking Far from Home White Tooth Man Wolves (Song of the Shepherd's Dog) Your Fake Name Is Good Enough for Me
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