The recording isn't bad....so you must be getting better..it's bloody hard I know well...I was really crap...this ain't bad.
Anyway the song is really nice....love that understated vocal delivery and the catchy rhythm of the thing. Those guitar bits that follow and underline some of the vocal parts work really well. Nice guitar sound too.
Lyric is great especially that 'and I often think, in quieter times, if I don't sink too low that I might rise above these flames a man reborn but no...
Onwards I row'
Great! And delivered so well.
I can understand Paul's Dury reference not that it sounds especially like him but as he says it ploughs its own furrow in the same way that Dury's stuff did....and a few other guys from that era...say Jona Lewie or Wreckless Eric...has that individuality.
If it was me I would definitely repeat once...or maybe more times depending on how many I think I could get away with...just the 'I might rise above these flames a man reborn but no...
Onwards I row'
This how I would go out...either one repeat or several because this is such a great bit that it could stand the repeating.
Enjoyed it!