I'm glad you like this one so much, Tess. I actually wrote it for a friend of mine (a terrific girl) who'll be getting married next summer. I only see her once a year at her brother-in-law's Labor Day weekend party, and when I heard she was engaged, this song just came out... The sentiment could apply to any young girl, however... "You'll always be this young if love comes first and you stay filled with life."

This is so beautiful...*deep sigh*

Just going through February's RPM Challenge songs... Upped the volume on the vocals a bit (hopefully not too much).

Great song about your doggy - Love the slide too.

great song!!

Thanks to everyone for so many positive comments about this song (and thank you again to Kavin for making it sound so good). So many great dogs out there and we were just lucky enough to adopt one of the best.

I love my dogs. all 3. :)

good one fellas. nice slide guitar too.

Hey, cool collab, the slide guitar does sound excellent. The whole thing sounds great.

Booty job.

fantastic, mans best friend indeed. Big ol' shepard mix, yeah, I had one of those kind once, called him Max, your song is bringing memories to my mind. Thanks for this.

Any song about Dr.Who is alright in my books. This is a really great song, nicely recorded.

Now That's a great song! Nice collab guys!

beautiful song. and lucky Bandit: he who writes such music can't be a bad man..

Good one guys.

That was fun, thanks Keith. Now I wanna go out and adopt a puppy!

What a great song. Love the slide guitar too.

Oh yeah, MIGHTY collab, fellas!

superb work here man. Cool accent too. Guitar progressions and slides are *PERFECT*. Flows like a river...

Big thanks to Kavin for making this song more than I could have possibly imagined with his incredible slide guitar.

This is OUTSTANDING!!! Anyone can write a poignant song that'll make people cry, but it takes real skill to write a poignant song that'll make people laugh. So well written... This truly is brilliant.

Beautifully told, Kavin.

Hey superstar! I feel especially spoiled having heard this one from you last year!!! Damn, I love that voice of yours. I look forward to making more music with you... Any time you'd like.

...And I have no guess what you might be thinking of, but it makes me think of the oncoming longest night of the year.

Outstanding song, T! So beautifully arranged and cleanly played. As always, I'm so impressed by your acoustic skills. Faved. Faved again if I could.

Ha! First one in. Great work man!

Always good to hear stuff is in the works, Corbin!

Ooooh... Now here's a great track. Great sound, Brett! Edgy pure music at its best. Seriously, this is some kind of excellent.

So this is what equipment check sounds like when you have limitless talent. VERY well done.

Love it! Please never stop digging through old tracks!!!

I have to fave this just for Stephen Krell's outstanding banjo addition to this song from a past RPM album.

Really cool sound... I'd love to hear these tracks without the fuzz and hiss! They hide that magnificent voice!!!

For the record, this song was written specifically with Jim's MTC goodness in mind, so I hear this version as frighteningly incomplete... But it is how it sounds when it's just me at the bonfire, so thanks to those of you who like this version as well.

Faved instantly. So good that y'all were awake at the same time!

First rate hard-driving track.

Just flipped open the laptop to this here on alonetone. Just an outstanding track. The opening buck-fifty-seven of guitarwork is simply brilliant... And the song only gets better with the spot-on vocals. Radio-ready. I know before I've mentioned hints of Matthew Sweet (in all the great vocal delivery and outstanding songwriting) and Foo Fighters (with the incredibly guitar-driven arrangements and counterpoint of clean and edgy), but this music is so much more than the sum of those parts. I suspect that if either Mr. Sweet or Mr. Grohl heard this track, they'd say, "Damn, I wish I'd written that." This song delivers like a powerfully honest stream of consciousness that leaves me thinking of one word only... Integrity. Outstanding track, Brian. This truly is music at its best.

Damn, man... Always blown away by your professional sound. Music like this is the reason why I haven't bought a commercial album in years. There ain't anything on the radio I'd rather listen to.

I'd be curious to hear how you went about composing this song... It is quite good!

...And back again to listen to this little piece of perfection. Just magnificently played.

Outstanding track!