Joni Mitchell: The Last Time I Saw Richard

This is the best song about disillusionment that I know:

And he told me all romantics meet the same fate some day
Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe

And some trivia: Carole King was recording Tapestry at the same time as Joni Mitchell was recording Blue, from which this track comes. Both preferred the piano in one of the studios to the other, so it appears on both LPs.