A jangly 90’s kinda crossover alt country?

Man of the Man (C2023 S.Murwin)

DOWNWARD STATE OF GRACE   (by S. Murwin 5/4/14)

If you know my name,
Then you know I'm lame.
I walk to the side,
Just so I can hide.
But the limp is just for show,
An excuse for movin' slow.

You laugh at me,
Though I'm not funny.
My train is off it's track,
No chance of comin' back.
But I need to get on line,
Gotta break it down to find.

But the card I've got to play
is just the two of hearts an' your spade is the ace,
My apologies to all involved,
You caught me in a downward state of grace.

Don't think, I don't know,
Just making sure before I go.
We'll see what comes along,
Guess you don't like my song.
But I'm singin' it anyway,
An' even louder today.

'Cause what I've got to say
is just a brain cell slipped away from its place,
My apologies to all involved,
You caught me in a downward state of grace.

Yeah the dust on my decay
is just the way I count the days on my face,
Hard to recognize me now,
Spinning in a downward state of grace.
Lost my pace,
In a downward state of grace.


GHETTOS OF MY SOUL    (by S. Murwin)
Walk on by there's nothin' you can do,
I lie on my back an' cry, sinking in residue.
About to make my debut,

From the ghettos of my soul, I am callin',
Is where I lose control, where I have fallen.
Wounded scarred an' broken down,
Hard to put my feet back on the ground.

By the trash can, lies a dead man,
He is I an' I am he.
It's where I been hidin', It's where I been hidin',
But nobody, nobody, nobody's lookin' for me.
In the ghettos of my soul...

I am my own city now, I am my own city now,
I am all the streets, I am all the lights,
A sad excuse for love, the King Loser of lonesome fights,
But here I've lost my rights,
In the ghettos of my soul...

Look up at the windows, Look up at the windows,
Always watchin' me.
Yeah, the windows are watchin' me,
They see what's goin' on, goin' on, goin' on in my dreams.

People pass me, but I ask no sympathy,
People pass me, an' it makes them cringe to see,
People pass me, an' all I feel is shame,
People pass me, I don't even deserve my name,
But it's mine an' you can curse it just the same,
From the ghettos of my soul...

Sittin' on the corner, Just sittin' on the corner,
I'm just sittin' on the corner,
Sittin' on the corner.

Johnny's Cousin Steve

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