Considering I asked this online, I should have expected these suggestions...
They're legitimately good songs though. Especially the first one, you can say I'm a fan.
Linking to it a bit silly, but a classic. And it is a legit good song.
More seriously, try Dashboard Confessional's Hands Down with vocals by Michael Stipe from R.E.M.
Take This Waltz by Leonard Cohen is all kinds of wonderful, and in a similarly poetic vein, Paper Airplane by Buck 65.
As to female vocalists, The Dozens by Amelia Curran is rather a bragging about love one, but it's a great song regardless. Swell Window is pretty sweet, and it's generally worth checking out any of her stuff. By the same token, try out Song To Fall In Love To by Sophie Madeline, it's a keeper.
