"Junk" by Paul McCartney (from the album, McCartney, 1970)
A contrast to the bombast of yesterday's Springsteen number, this is one of those silky McCartney slow songs that were made to be played by candlelight late in the evening, when you've opened that second bottle of wine. It's from his first solo album, recorded in a home studio around the chaos of the Beatles' break-up. A simple melody, an aching lyric about the material leftovers of lives lost and relationships past, "Junk" is one of McCartney's finest stripped-down melodies. It ranks, for me, alongside "Blackbird" and "Mother Nature's Son" and "Yesterday" as one of his loveliest introspective songs.
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