Leonard Cohen write Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye in 1966 and it was included on his album Songs of Leonard Cohen, released in 1967.

He was a poet, an author, and a songwriter, and in his songs, the rhythms of poetry and emotional insights fill the song with melancholy, but also speaks to universal themes of love, loss, regret, and the inevitability of change.

It is an accessible song with a clear meaning and memorable lines, one that resonates in our memory, emerging unexpectedly when triggered by the changes in our own lives.