I find the melody and chord structure very pleasing indeed – in both the verse and chorus.

The choice of instruments, pauses, tempo and overall balance are also quite excellent to my ears.

Most of the points I would look into concern the lyrics.

Count me among those who don’t get the preacher verse either.
If it were : “I was going to be a preacher (in a Church – presumably Catholic – in which priests remain single and celibate)….until I met you…”

…then it would make more sense.

Wouldn’t the imminent arrival of the baby bring our protagonist even closer to his ambition of becoming a priest?

I’ve read your post #223086 of course, Pete, but I still don’t feel this is the interpretation most listeners would make of the lyric as presented.

I also have a bit of an issue with V1: “my world was falling” ?
Here we have a guy who clearly has a job, an enchanting wife/girlfriend, a truck!!

Surely this wonderful woman would have given him the perspective to see that what he was experiencing was the proverbial bad day at the office. OK, the truck’s broke, the toolkit’s gone and he’s late for work – but “my world was falling”??.

No one’s died, no houses burnt down, wife not caught in bed with best friend etc (see the Country repertoire for what really can go wrong in a song)..

Thus, I don’t find this verse entirely convincing.

Also, at 4:20 I find the piece perhaps a little long.

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