Your rights over my rights now
But there's dangerous levels of it here
Songwriter: Carl Allan Newman
But now it's your rights versus mine
Publisher: A.C. NEWMAN
The truth in one free afternoon
A new empire in rags
Under your wheels, your hopeless reign
The truth in one free afternoon
Your rights over my rights now
A new empire in rags
The truth in one free afternoon
The new empire in rags
You fall too hard, we're up too late
Fingers in paints, in paints we brought
Under your wheels, your chance is with
Complex notes inside the chords
Mirage of loss, a few more things
Spectacles painted with my shaking hand
The time to dabble in the arts
You left your sorrow dangling
Your rights over my rights now
Courts knew this and nothing more
The medicine, it still won't work
To tease the packs of dogs in charge
The easy call, the called-off search
Mirage of loss, a few more things
Same thing as the other time
We hang suspended from the heights
Under your wheels, the hope of spring
Your rights over my rights now
But kid, it's always still me
The truth in one free afternoon
Deep as lakes and dark as stars
A new empire in rags
The medicine it still won't sing
Thinking we'd leave them when we're not
Under my wheels the chance is held
Gave me to save me from myself
The truth in one free afternoon
Under your wheels, the hope of spring
It hangs in air like a school cheer
Remember we were the volunteers
But there's dangerous levels of it here
We came to the right place
The truth in one free afternoon
We came to the right place
Now it's my rights versus yours
On every wall inflections carved
Your rights over my rights now
Under your wheels, the fits and starts
Flying the flags of new empires in rags
Until it's safer to walk here