Whatever you may feel about Cohen, you have to concede he really knew how to put a sentence or two together.
And Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain, only drowning men could see him
He said, "All men shall be sailors then, until the sea shall free them."
But he, himself was broken, long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone.