I liked this a lot the first time you posted it. It's much better now. This is one that definitely worked out for the tune. It's still got the sparseness that I love, but it doesn't have any gaps now. The harp is a perfect compliment to this...very nicely done..no ego. But I'm a total sucker for luuuuuushhhh bg vox, and those backups are MAKING this song for me right now. I hesitated for a second before I listened, because I tend to get a song stuck in my head a certain way, and then I'm kinda' jolted in an unpleasant way.
Not jolted in an unpleasant way here AT ALL.
Man erichenryus, quit wasting your time on the percussive noise thing...LOL. All that stuff's just filler. Your vocals are top freakin' notch....I'll shut up now, b/c I'm not doing Pete justice, or the song...But honestly, those backups are outstanding to me. Less is more - I can't seem to do that...I'd have walked all over the song, LOL.
Really, my only complaint in the entire song is that laugh you employ before the "you still make me laugh" line...it sounds contrived to me,...like you'd tracked it already about 9 times - and it's one distraction to me in an otherwise sincere song. My honest opinion, either laugh or delete, LOL.
One of my favorites, made even better...that's a rarity.
(the tune could use a little angst in it, perhaps an 11th hour breakup of the marriage in the 11th year, LOL. THEN IT'D BE PERFECT