Different Sides Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Monir 

Cover art for Different Sides lyrics by Leonard Cohen

I look at this song in a very spiritual way. I think Cohen here refers to the dualities of the world where people need to take sides and prefer one over the other (black vs. white, dark vs. light, high vs. Low and so on), while at the end we are all playing our roles in the world and in the essence we are part of the Divine (i.e. we are all one )