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If that is for me?

First off...I think that the song is cool. It has a cranky message delivered with well married cranky music.
Second-ly, I wouldnt change anything. I would experiment with a few things and see if they worked to enhance what you have.

The articulation of the vocals and various instruments are very crisp and distinct in stereo field. That is one of the things that gives the song its' cool.
I think that your voice is very correct for the message and attitude of the song. There are a couple of spots where I might dial the inflective stylizing back on the vox...but that is matter of personal taste.

I really like the fact that the bass and drums and vox are right there in-your-face in the stereo field. I might experiment with creating slightly more width in the room and shifting the instruments left and right...not too far. Just a little more width between the band members.

I noticed a delay on the guitar here and there. The guitar comes in and out of the music. I would experiment with automating the delay and/or reverb and jacking it up in spots. Have the guitar transient hit front and center with the vox and bass and drums....and then have the efx kick in hard and fade the guitar back and up on the decay. And then the efx fall away.

When the vox land on "preachin," I'd experiment with the same automation in an attempt to make that word fly back and up into the room.

When you break to "we take too much credit," and the piano rolls...that sounds okay to me but offers an opportunity to contrast that section (chorus?) with the rest of the song by thickening the mix and body of the song with either piano chords or electric bar chords. It also offers an opportunity to introduce a little more melody.

Tony,
I could sit down to write 10,000 songs and none of them would sound like this. You made this sound good and cool. Me spelling out to you what to do on a song like this is backwards to reality. You are a talented guy and this song is something that you do well.

As I said early on in this thread....Well done.

Marty