The fourth line makes an extraordinarily powerful statement which asks the reader to draw from his or her own experience. Cohen is both mass culture and a man with a circulation of one, somehow. Cohen sneakily begins a major discussion about dreams when he states that there were lots of invitations . As we find out, Cohen hasn't accepted what is implied to be a great chance because he's waiting for a sort of divine love, a probably unattainable miracle cure. If there is a such thing as sexual politics, Leonard Cohen is definitely a Democrat.
Some lines are extremely difficult.
He was 13 at the time. Cohen brilliantly twists the story around and confuses us yet again by revealing that she's waiting for a sort of miracle herself. Cohen's shrewd poem defies expectations and presents us with a number of challenges and an opportunity to create a mind-numbing number of interpretations. It's probably a poem about two people who settle for each other while they're waiting forever for something unattainable. Alternately, they may be absolutely happy and absolutely at peace.