Herb:

Thank you for your wonderfully honest and constructive comment.

I actually worked hard to get the voices to sound close to what I wanted them to sound like. So, if they sound too robotic, that's my lack of skill with them (as yet), as opposed to lack of application. I will tinker more with them smile

As for the change of the order of the words in the lyric: "my heart you broke", that was quite deliberate, and justified (in my eyes, at least) as poetic licence smile . I could have easily written: "it's been many, many years since we were apart, it's been many, many years since you broke my heart", for example. But I chose not to. Debatable choice, perhaps, I agree - but it was a deliberate choice (in order, amongst other things, to put the accent firmly on "spoke" and "broke" ... on the verb, in other words) smile

Thanks again for taking the time to listen! I really appreciate honest comments smile - even where I disagree with them, haha wink I'm genuinely grateful.