Hey Brad!

Love your Telecaster! You have a very soothing voice, and I like the echo you put on it. I like the way you used the recurring phrase "I KNOW". It's a very good fit for the story your song tells.

The song has a very nice flow to it, and I found it very easy to listen to. I'm glad you posted the lyrics. Doing so enhances a song's enjoyability, and its a recurring request here on the forum.

One of the challenges when deciding which real tracks to use is finding tracks that fill in the places where your vocals stop. If the track you like doesn't stop and start at places that fit the composition, then your choices are to either cut and paste until it works, or find a new RT.

The phrasing of the pedal steel in this song is not what you'd be likely to get from a live musician, who would probably wait until the vocalist stopped singing before he played a decorative fill. The pedal steel track is decorating while you are still singing, which distracts from the lyrical message and makes the song sound "busy". The simple fix is to simply cut away the decorations that are playing during the singing.

Or not. You get to decide how your song gets mixed! I'm just pointing out the kind of things that might not be obvious during the composing stage and don't show up until grumpy opinionated audience members start nit-picking. ;-)

All in all, I like this song a lot. Don't put too much stock in anybody's opinions about your songs.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ey71h8ep047758h/AAC12jNM0Hz9Q8zsh5iDeqNHa?dl=0