It took me way longer to read your detailed commentary on the making of the song than it did for the song to play in it's entirety.

Reading it, however, explains a lot of what I was hearing.

I like to think I know a fair amount about the tools I use to create my songs and then I hear what you do and read the details and ... Well.... My hat is off to you.

I agree with the others who mentioned it could be a TV show theme song from the past. That's a compliment.

Between the harmony in the vocals and the interesting choice of chords (most likely from those interesting chords YouTube videos) it's clearly obvious that you put a lot of time and effort into the song. I know how much work it takes to get one harmony sounding right, let alone adding more. Chord theory comes in real handy for that.

I enjoyed the song. Good job my friend.

Edit to add : the lyrics are not too shabby either. Good message in there and a good job expressing it.

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