great song,, and really great collab

Ah, I thought you wrote it for your daughters. :-( Still gorgeous though!

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!

Oh wow, this is good right from the start. I had already faved this one a while back. Just a great love song from the amazing perspective of recall. INCREDIBLE guitarwork. What is your music background, Tharek? This is as good as it gets.

Beautiful opening picking, Tharek! What a genuine voice... Talk about honest music. Wow. I have a feeling that your music will soon begin to influence mine in some pretty profound ways.

How do you do your recording? Do you have separate mics for the vocals and guitar? I'd love to know since it sounds so good (I'm always looking for good ideas in an effort to make my music sound better).

Just a fantastic use of "ours is not to reason why." Great guitarwork and chord progression as always... If you don't come away from this song thinking hard, then there must be something wrong with you.

Just fantastic. So many powerful verses and every one is so meaningful and necessary. Whereas I find it hard to fill out "that dreaded third verse," it seems to me that meaningful words just pour out of Tharek effortlessly as he plays. I wish there were a way to "double favorite" a song when it's this good.

Wow. Just terrific guitarwork counterpointed by lower edgy vocals... What a sound! For me, this is a course in guitar 101... Great track.

All right, well I'm starting my OsCKilO music experience listenting to the playlist "Arise (Live and Acoustic)"... Mostly becuase I already love the title track. This is just a magnificent piece of songwriting. The straightforward simple arrangement and up-front vocals are just terrific. I am such a fan of the live recording, and this is one of the best.

Soooooooooo good. Just brilliant lyrics, incredible delivery. So real. I am in awe. Wow.

What a great song... Beautiful delicate arrangement. And yes, I see what you mean about the similarity in the feeling of our songs! Fantastic use of multiple vocals! I could never pull it off as you have! You are one hell of a songwriter... I am in awe when I listen to the freeness of your music and the heart that is poured into them.

Oh my, this is incredible.

Wow. Amazing and powerful. Just magnificently performed and so undeniably real. Beautiful simple arrangement. Well done, Braeden.

Wow... Great song, great feeling. What a voice and powerful delivery. I hope to hear more music from you, Rachel!

As always, Gumbo, just terrific musicianship! Holy friggin' Woody Guthrie reincarnated!

Great stuff... Very haunting sound, I can imagine the artistic movie scenes that this could play magnificently behind.

One of the best songs I've ever heard. Period.

Man, this stuff is so Jud Caswell-esque... just good in every way. Great talent!

Your "studio floor" as you call it must be one nice-sounding place. I hope you come back to this to flush it out further... It would be so easy to sing to this (and I hope you do at some point).

Again, just great from the start... Fave'd at the 12-second mark.

Yup, another great track right from the start.

Wow right from the start on this one... So smooth and delicate and poignant. Instant favorite.