May your eyes be wide and seeing
May you learn from the view where your 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
Want as much for the snake as the garden
Wear 'em both like a glove that you ran away
May your mouth betray your wisdom
And may you get what they failed to mention
May your love be your only religion
And preach it to us all
May you lose what you offer gladly
May you worship the time and its passing
Stars won't ever wait for you to watch 'em fall
With the smoke on a burned horizon
With a boat on a tide that's risin'
Both the post and the pig you're untyin'
Put your gun for the blade
Someday we may all be happy
Someday I'll make a face worth slapping
Someday we may be shocked to be laughing
At the way you behaved
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 chink in the mail
May you end it bruised and purple
And know the pieces, the shape of a circle
'Round and 'round you go,
Biting your tail
Little children, the wind is whipping
Destroyed hands on a clock still ticking
Both the hen and the red fox grinning
Its belly full for the day
Someday we may all want nothing
And I'll forget that we'll get what's coming
Someday I'll say the world was something
That we just couldn't change
May your tongue be sound and wicked
And know your part in the calf and the killing
See straight throught the captain you're kissing
The helm lose in his hand
May your words be well worth stealing
And put your hand on your heart when you're singing
The 's sick of the song but they still gotta stand

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