The Smokey Life

[Vonny]

This song always brings to mind a tv series from the US in the seventies or eighties but I can't remember which one. Was the song used or was it the inspiration for any tv themes back then ?

[peter danielsen]

I think the song "the smokey life" at least is the final proof that leonard Cohen really was the little jew who wrote the Bibel, compare Isa 34,10

"It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof
shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie
waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever."

with Leonard Cohen

"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 "