Thanks everyone for the kind words and suggestions. So amazing to have such a huge group of fans and mentors!
@DavidP Thanks for the tip about watching my own recording - what sticks out to me (before alot of the great suggestions on this thread) is the need to really nail down the chord transitions, especially the Bb to F which I skipped a few times and sounded thin most other times.
@batwoman thanks for listening - see note above 
@Rossco01 Thanks for listening and your suggestions. In this particular cover I’m playing fingerstyle because I think it fits the mood better for what I’m trying to do (a bit quieter, softer, more delicate than the Smiths version) but I definitely get your point about going back into the mechanics and making sure I’m ringing out each of the bass notes and chords fully since it’s easy for them to get muffled/muddy without a pick. As in my other video Second Cover - Beatles Nowhere Man I think some of the hesitancy at the beginning is me thinking “am I going to get this right enough to save this take?” and once I get far enough along I let that go. Which to me points to the need to go back to basics a bit, and like you and others have said really focus on getting the chord changes clean, get the individual notes to ring out, etc.