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My Rights Versus Yours Tab

by New Pornographers



The only tricky thing about this song is that some chords aren't held
as long as you'd think.  Watch out for the Gm to Bb on ‘truth in one
free afternoon’ and there’s a bunch of half measure changes near the
end at ‘my right versus your right versus.’  By the way, I have no idea
if those are the lyrics, so if you know the lyrics, help me out.


Under the wheels the hope will spring
  
Mirages lost a few more things
    
You left your sorrow dangling
                         
It hangs in the air like a school cheer


From black notes inside the chords
    
On every wall inflections coughed

Deepest lakes and darkest stars 
                                   
Remember we were the volunteers.        Oooooo

                   
Courts knew this and nothing more  Ooooo
                               
Now it’s my rights versus yours


Under your wheels your hopeless reign

You fall too hard were up to late
     
With hands suspended from the heights
                  
Until it’s safer to walk here

Under your wheels your chances win
    
The easy call, the call off search
    
The medicine, it still won’t work
                                      
But there’s dangerous levels of it here      Ooooo

                
Same thing as the other time
                       
But now it’s your rights versus mine
                              
The truth in one free afternoon
                            
The truth in one free afternoon
                   
Under my wheels the chances help
                    
It gave me to save if from myself
                                                         
The spectacles painted with my shaking hand
                     
Fingers and paints if paints we brought
                    
Thinking we’d be even when we’re not
                                
Flying the flags of new empires in rags
                                              x4
A new empire in rags.  The truth in free afternoon x4

                       
Under their wheels the fencers and start
  
A time to dabble in the arts
   
To teach the packs dogs in charge
                              
But kid it’s always beyond me

Under the wheels the hope will spring
    
The rashes have lost a few more things
    
The medicine it still won’t sing
                              
But there’s dangerous levels of it here

                                   
                          Ooo oo oo oo               
                             
Your rights versus my rights versus
                                                          
You came to my place.  Your rights versus my rights versus
                             
Your rights versus my rights versus
                                                          
You came to my place.  Your rights versus my rights versus

F  Am  for the rest of the song.  End on F