God, this sounds like a Tom Waits piece.

Do I hear an ELO riff from Don't Bring Me Down?

Jesse Colin Youngish

Spoken delivery bears a passing resemblance to It's Allright, Ma, I'm Only Bleeding. "Darkness at the break of noon..."

Sounds like David Clayton-Thomas, one-time singer for BS+T.

Nice of Yoko to provide background vox.

Pinkish Floydish

Kindly play the Gordon Lightfoot version. He wrote the song and does it best. Bob Dylan said GL was his main competition in the 1960s. Surely the opinions of a Nobel Prize winner should be heeded. 

Mama, take this song off of me: I can't hear it anymore.
I'm knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door.

Piano has a Sexy Sadie vibe

 Lazarus wrote:

... and a big part of that incredibleness was due to its producer, Daniel Lanois.

Bill, you gotta play Show Some Emotion (#2 track on a 1977 LP named eponymously) by Joan A.

BRUUUUUUUCE!!!!!!!!!!!

opening is direct rip-off from I Don’t Like Mondays