The Smokey Life

Album: Recent Songs (1979)
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  • I've never seen your eyes so wide
    I've never seen your appetite quite this occupied
    Elsewhere is your feast of love
    I know where long ago we agreed to keep it light
    So lets be married one more night
    It's light, light enough
    To let it go
    It's light enough to let it go

    Remember when the scenery started fading
    I held you til you learned to walk on air
    So don't look down the ground is gone,
    there's no one waiting anyway
    The Smoky Life is practiced
    Everywhere

    So set your restless heart at ease
    Take a lesson from these Autumn leaves
    They waste no time waiting for the snow
    Don't argue now you'll be late
    There is nothing to investigate

    It's light enough, light enough
    To let it go
    Light enough to let it go

    Remember when the scenery started fading
    I held you til you learned to walk on air
    So don't look down the ground is gone,
    there's no one waiting anyway
    The Smoky Life is practiced everywhere

    Come on back if the moment lends
    You can look up all my very closest friends

    Light, light enough
    To let it go
    It's light enough to let it go Writer/s: LEONARD COHEN
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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