{"id":219,"date":"2026-06-29T13:13:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rambleon.ca\/talesntunes\/?p=219"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:13:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:13:34","slug":"hey-thats-no-way-to-say-goodbye-by-leonard-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rambleon.ca\/talesntunes\/hey-thats-no-way-to-say-goodbye-by-leonard-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, That&#8217;s No Way to Say Goodbye by Leonard Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hey, That&#8217;s No way to Say Goodbye<\/em> was released in 1967 on Leonard Cohen&#8217;s album <em>Songs of Leonard Cohen<\/em>.\u00a0 \u00a0It is a song about the waning of a relationship.\u00a0 \u00a0 It is written as a folk song, but with emotional depth that shows acceptance and reflection.\u00a0 \u00a0 Cohen was a poet and the lyrics have a melancholy conversational tone.<\/p>\n<pre>I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,\r\nyour hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm,\r\nyes, many loved before us, I know that we are not new,\r\nin city and in forest they smiled like me and you,\r\nbut now it's come to distances and both of us must try,\r\nyour eyes are soft with sorrow,\r\nHey, that's no way to say goodbye.<\/pre>\n<p>One of the performances, this one a duet:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_96588\"  width=\"480\" height=\"270\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BzgUs3c9QHY?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&controls=1&disablekb=0&color=red&cc_lang_pref=&rel=1&autohide=2&theme=dark&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, That&#8217;s No way to Say Goodbye was released in 1967 on Leonard Cohen&#8217;s album Songs of Leonard Cohen.\u00a0 \u00a0It is a song about the waning of a relationship.\u00a0 \u00a0 It is written as a folk song, but with emotional <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rambleon.ca\/talesntunes\/hey-thats-no-way-to-say-goodbye-by-leonard-cohen\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[10,31],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tunes","tag-folk-music","tag-ok"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hey, That&#039;s No Way to Say Goodbye by Leonard Cohen - Tales n Tunes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rambleon.ca\/talesntunes\/hey-thats-no-way-to-say-goodbye-by-leonard-cohen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hey, That&#039;s No Way to Say Goodbye by Leonard Cohen - Tales n Tunes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hey, That&#8217;s No way to Say Goodbye was released in 1967 on Leonard Cohen&#8217;s album Songs of Leonard Cohen.\u00a0 \u00a0It is a song about the waning of a relationship.\u00a0 \u00a0 It is written as a folk song, but with emotional &hellip; Continue reading &rarr;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rambleon.ca\/talesntunes\/hey-thats-no-way-to-say-goodbye-by-leonard-cohen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tales n Tunes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-06-29T20:13:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rambleon.ca\/talesntunes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/no-way-to-say-goodbye-e1750019574228.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"D. 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