Heidi,
I've yet to meet you so first, Hi and nice to meet you. Your suggestions are very insightful...personally I'm not as concerned with the little change in the chorus. The hook, which is "Even the Candles Cried", does stay in tact , it's the supporting lines that change, and the melody holds course so as not to confuse the listener who isn't hanging on every word, there's alot of those. The suggestion about the baby is a cool idea, I'll mention it to my co-writer, but what I must also mention is that I have had to speed up the tempo twice on this song already to keep it in a pitchable time frame, much over 4 minutes and they just about pitch it in file 13 for you...ha...we did run this by a hit writer before we did the demo, and there are still a few things I'd like to change, but it is being received well so far and I've just had it ready for a couple of days. The other thing I noticed in your comments is that you said you are not a hit country writer yet, that is a statement I admire alot as I am a very positive and focused person myself. Best of luck to you and I appreciate your time, comments, and look forward to seeing some of your work sometime. Moker