My Rights Versus Yours - The New Pornographers

Under your wheels, the hope of spring

Mirage of loss, a few more things

You left your sorrow dangling

It hangs in air like a school cheer

Complex notes inside the chords

On every wall inflections carved

Deep as lakes and dark as stars

Remember we were the volunteers

(Ooooh) Courts knew this and nothing more

(Ooooh) Now it’s my rights versus yours

Under your wheels, your hopeless reign

You fall too hard-we're up too late

We hang suspended from the heights

Until it’s safer to walk here

Under your wheels, your chance is with

The easy call, the called-off search

The medicine, it still won’t work

But there’s dangerous levels of it here

(Ooooh) Same thing as the other time

(Ooooh) But now it’s your rights versus mine

The truth in one free afternoon

The truth in one free afternoon

Under my wheels the chance is held

Gave me to save me from myself

Spectacles painted with my shaking hand

Fingers in paints, in paints we brought

Thinking we’d leave them when we’re not

Flying the flags of new empires in rags

The new empire in rags

The truth in one free afternoon

A new empire in rags

The truth in one free afternoon

A new empire in rags

The truth in one free afternoon

A new empire in rags

The truth in one free afternoon

Under your wheels, the fits and starts

The time to dabble in the arts

To tease the packs of dogs in charge

But kid it’s all wasted on me

Under your wheels, the hope of spring

Mirage of loss, a few more things

The medicine it still won’t sing

But there’s dangerous levels of it here

(Your rights over my rights now

We came to the right place

Your rights over my rights now

Your rights over my rights now

We came to the right place

Your rights over my rights now

Your rights over my rights now)