Brad,

This is perhaps the best song I've ever heard in my life, anywhere at any time. Definitely the best country song to ever appear on this forum and perhaps for all time.

It just has some extra special magical factor and I can't quite put my finger on it that truly pushes it over the top and gives it that epic beyond epic feel that is not often approached in music as we know it.

I wish I could figure out what that extra factor was, but all I know is that something is going on in this song that has created probably the most epic musical tour de force that country music, or music in general for that matter, has ever witnessed or experienced in our lifetime, or even going back to the dawn of mankind.

While others merely try to write a country song, you did write a country song. Real country. More country than country itself. Straight to the heart of the very core of country. The way a real man writes country.

Bravo.

You have now set the bar and I feel sorry for anyone else who tries to reach it.