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It seems that everyone struggled with the same thing with these tracks, namely significant thickness in the middle and getting the vocals to be intelligible. This is my take on this.
I added two bars of the drums to the intro to help better establish them better as I felt the vocals came in a bit to abruptly. Everything else in the arrangement is the same as given.

The vocals were a real challenge for me and there is a lot of processing on them, probably too much. I had fun with the bridge and the helicopter at the end of the first chorus.
Enjoy,
mITc
Mastered at -13.5 LUFs

I get adding a bar at the top. The timing does feel weird. I toyed with starting right at the vocal but left it as is. Adding a bar works too.

The verse vocal works. I’m not sure if the acoustic guitar flange is distracting from it though. I’m on the fence. The vocal could be a dB or so out front more.

The chorus feels good. My only issues is the hard “k” on “Like”. It really sticks out. Same with the bridge vocal. The “k”s cut through a bit too much. Since it’s panned left it could be a bit lower and still be heard well.

I like the ‘helicopter’ at the end of the first chorus.

Sounds good.

I think you done well with the vox they sound good .Good mix enjoyed it