Hi Greg!

What a wonderful, magical musical journey! When I first started listening, I thought my internet radio had kicked in and I had to double-check to see that that wasn't the case. Earl's singing, and the arrangement and production are spectacular.

This is definitely a song to be proud of... immensely proud, in fact. It's beautiful. The meter and the rhyming pattern that you have used to write these verse lyrics work incredibly well. They amplify the emotional impact of the lyrics, and you have used these tools to perfection to get words to flow so easily and so comfortably on the ears that it's impossible to imagine the lyrics in any other format. Everything fits together exquisitely.

On a personal note... I love, love, love your rhyme scheme. It's a similar rhyme scheme to one that I once heard Steve Seskin describe as "very sophisticated."

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Having that last, single poetic foot of lyric dangling in an unrhymed position (without you, just you, it's you) really strengthens the emotional significance of the "you" character and leaves no doubt in the listener's mind about how important "you" is to the singer. It's like a P.S. at the end of a love letter that emphasises just how much the letter-reader means to the letter-writer.

I'm so glad that I stopped by to hear this smile

All the very best for Christmas and the New Year!
--Noel

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