Songbook

My Rights Versus Yours

By The New Pornographers

Key of F

[Intro]
F

[Verse]
F
Under your wheels, the hope of spring
  Am
Mirage of loss, a few more things
    Dm
You left your sorrow dangling
   Bb                  C
It hangs in air like a school cheer

F
Complex notes inside the chords
    Am
On every wall inflections carved
Dm
Deep as lakes and dark as stars
  Bb                 C
Remember we were the volunteers.

[Pre-Chorus]
 Bb      Am                   Bb
(Oooooo) Courts knew this and nothing more
         Am                 Bb                F
(Oooooo) Now it’s my rights versus yours

[Verse]
F
Under your wheels, your hopeless reign
Am
You fall too hard, we're up too late
   Dm
We hang suspended from the heights
  Bb                C
Until it’s safer to walk here

F
Under your wheels, your chance is with
    Am
The easy call, the called-off search
    Dm
The medicine, it still won’t work
            Bb                  C
But there’s dangerous levels of it here

[Pre-Chorus]
 Bb      Am                Bb
(Oooooo) Same thing as the other time
         Am                       Gm
(Oooooo) But now it’s your rights versus mine

[Chorus]
    Bb                     F           Gm
The truth in one free afternoon
    Bb                     F
The truth in one free afternoon

[Interlude]
C                   Dm
Under my wheels the chance is held
Am                 Bb
Gave me to save me from myself
C                  Dm              Bb
Spectacles painted with my shaking hand

C                     Dm
Fingers in paints, in paints we brought
Am                       Bb
Thinking we’d leave them when we’re not
C                   Dm             Bb
Flying the flags of new empires in rags

[Chorus]
                  Gm
The new empire in rags
    Bb                F
The truth in one free afternoon
                Gm
A new empire in rags
    Bb                F
The truth in one free afternoon
                Gm
A new empire in rags
    Bb                F
The truth in one free afternoon
                Gm
A new empire in rags
    Bb                F
The truth in one free afternoon

[Verse]
F
Under your wheels, the fits and starts
    Am
The time to dabble in the arts
   Dm
To tease the packs of dogs in charge
    Bb                     C
But kid it’s all wasted on me

F
Under your wheels, the hope of spring
   Am
Mirage of loss, a few more things
    Dm
The medicine it still won’t sing
    Bb                          C
But there’s dangerous levels of it here

[Chorus]
F              Am
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
F                              Am        Gm
Your rights over my rights now
Eb
We came to the right place.
F                              Am
Your rights over my rights now
F                              Am        Gm
Your rights over my rights now
Eb
We came to the right place.
F                             Am
Your rights over my rights now
F                             Am
Your rights over my rights now

[Outro]
F Am F Am F