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If you want something slightly more contemporary, albeit still over 25 years old, I’d suggest “Songbird”, a song usually credited to ‘Fleetwood Mac’ (‘Rumours’, of course) but it’s really a solo Christine McVie piece and should be credited as such. She wrote it, she sang it, she played the solo piano. And it’s very, very hard to beat.
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I agree. It’s tough to come up with songs that aren’t schmaltzy and don’t express pain or heartbreak in some way…and this is one of them. Beautiful and pure.
I probably would never have thought of this song if I hadn’t just heard it on the radio, but Roxy Music’s More Than This is a classic.