May your eyes be wide and seeing 
May you learn from the view where your kneeling 
Know the fear of the world that your feeling 
Its the fear of a Slave 

May you know how the fight was started 
Won as much from 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 fail to mention 
May your love be your only religion 
Preach it to us all 

May you lose what you are for gladly 
May you worship the time and its passing 
Stars won't ever wait for you 
To watch them fall 

We're the smoke on a burnt horizon 
We're the boat on a tide thats rising 
Both the post and the pig you're untying 
Butcher gone 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 we behaved 

May your hands be strong and willing 
May you know when to speak and to listen 
May you find every friend that your missing 
There's no checking the mail 

May you end up [bad word] and purple 
Know that peace is the shape of a circle 
Cause round and round you'll go 
Biting your tail 

Little children the wind is whipping 
Short hands on the clock still ticking 
Both the egg and the red fox grinning 
Their belly full for the day 

Someday we may all want nothing 
And all forget that we'll get [bad word] 
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 your kissing 
helm loose in his hand 

May your words be well worth stealing 
Put your hand on your heart when your singing 
The choir sick of the song 
But they still gotta stand