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I haven't listened to the song but I would suggest that you rethink your mixing technique if you aren't getting the result you want. For instance...
If the lead vocal is emotional and to be featured prominently, start your mix there. Bring the vocal up solo to about -12/-15 and create a warm interesting space around it with reverb and delays. Pretend it's an acapella mix and don't eq anything unless you absolutely hear something nasal or irritating. Natural is the key word here. Hi-Pass the vox around 50hz or so.
Inserting a high quality very short reverb on the vox track can add warmth and help define it. This is hard with plugins. A good hardware verb is probably needed.
Once you get that done bring in the piano. Hi-pass it in anticipation of the bass line and drums coming in. Don't touch anything else until the vocal and piano sound good by themselves. Don't touch anything else until you can close your eyes and hear the piano on a soundstage in a different place from the vocal. Now...
Bring in the Kick drum, snare and the bass track only. Forget about hats and percussion. Mix those tracks in to create a low and midrange bed around the vox and piano. If it 'aint "groovin" slide the bass a little up or back. Once you get the Kick and Bass eq where you want it (try something new) send them both to a mono group and compress them together. Setting are subjective, make it sound good. They should both be well defined.
And so on and so on...
Thing is, mixing the same way every time is not always a good idea. Sometimes a song calls for a different approach. Experiment. If you don't like the result you have now flip the script and approach it in reverse, or from the middle, or from a wacky angle.
Lawrence
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