There are few singers quite like Charles Wesley Godwin. His reedy tenor quakes with sizable force, no matter the song. With “Dead to Rights,” a collab with ERNEST, Godwin unpacks a smokey tale about love. “So damn used to waking up in an empty bed / Ain’t that I prefer it any other way instead,” he muses about the times before love struck his heart.
“Seventh avenue’s been kind to me / Was there for me in times of my most desperate need,” he continues. His sadness of being alone pours on the lyrics like thick sap. It fuels him, and yet, it drags him down – that is before a lover’s glance collided with his. “You’re written on my stone before I even die / The way you land those kisses, you’ve got me dead to rights and I don’t mind,” he adds on the chorus.
Despite living a life out on the road, he made sure to pour his lingering strength into writing his latest EP. “I’ve learned that I’m at my best when I’m writing and recording songs,” he says in a press statement, “so this time around, I was determined, no matter how much I was on the go, to keep pursuing that love of the song and creating.”
“Dead to Rights” is ripped from Godwin’s newly-released Lonely Mountain Town EP.
Listen to “Dead to Rights” below.
Photo via Charles Wesley Godwin EP cover
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