Great imagery. I like to write what I call universal specificity, and this is what it is. I don't know what it's like to experience what you did, but through this song I know exactly how it feels.

I lost my mom last September and I channeled that grief into songs about all kinds of grief. Trying to do the same as you, maybe not everyone has experienced that, but everybody knows what it's like to hurt.

It's nice that you can channel it into a song with an uplifting message.

I'm so sorry for the difficult year. AND this song (you wrote this in 45 minutes?!) is glorious and heartbreaking and hopeful and a beautiful reflection on what it [the big it and the small it] all means. So many small bits and images and lines that add up to so much. The "all the little pieces" stanzas slay me (along with the spaces before "in the end", and that last line is both sad and hopeful.

Oh, I have never come across you before. What a gentle, lovely vocal! Relatable and heartfelt. Beautiful performance and wonderful story flow in a skirmish!! Made me tear up!! Perfect title, too!

I’m so sorry you’ve had to go through such trauma. I can relate. Heart wrenching yet you’ve left a glimpse of hope as well and the lost love shines through. Hope things get better for you and yours. Well thought and lovely performance.

This is such a beautiful and heartbreaking song, but somehow still really uplifting. The sense of hope really does come through. Music is such a powerful thing - and as well as producing something so wonderful for the listener, the idea of it helping you process your grief and look forward makes it all the more meaningful. You’re a fantastic lyricist, I always find it the hardest part of songwriting and these words flow in a way that feels so easy, real and relatable. I’m really glad I found this today.

I'm glad you spent the extra time on this, because it's come out beautifully. It's a sad song, but it clings onto hope. The vocal hits just the right balance of polish and rawness. I wish you a better next year.

Oh you had me in tears with that first verse. I can barely type now. Here is hoping for a successful 3rd attempt! Una abraçada forta from Catalunya.

Awww Casey, my heart is breaking for you tonight! I read your liner notes and I am so deeply sorry for the pain and loss you and your wife have suffered. The pain may never go away completely but it will diminish. There is Love and Hope and Kindness and Good in the world. You both have to be those things for each other and carry your hearts forward. I wish you both healing and happiness when it can be.

And as for your song, well I guess my heart can be broken twice in one sitting because there it went again. Honestly, I think you could sing my nonsense words and still touch hearts. Your voice here is sad yet soothing and true. That guitar is precisely what this songs needs to support your voice. The melody you've written is enchanting.

And your lyrics are so poignant. The title/hook is immensely effective. You tell this story so skillfully. I began to tear up at the first line "All the little pieces you'd leave scattered". There are so many vivid images like "tuft of dandelion caught In your hair" and "scatter of freckles spillin' over your cheeks". My god, I "know" these people! And by the time I got to the very first "In the end"...Niagra Falls. It is extremely effective how you delay delivery of that final line in each section.

So, what you have written here is absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking. Thank you for sharing your heartbreak with me through this song. I wish you and your wife the very best. I wish you healing. I wish you peace.