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I think the Buckley version is just about getting laid and how you can do it by pretending to be "real deep".
he dropped the last verse because he could not understand it.
Cohen on the other hand is definitely writing in a Gnostic-cabalistic-sufi mode.
Sex is a common metaphor for communion with the divine
and lost love is one for the schism between Man and God.
The song is about Sex and God because every real poem is about sex and God.
Of course since it is Cohen they are mutual metaphors Sex -> God and God->Sex .