Ross, as soon as I read your post about the song being in the closing credits of a film, I remembered the skaters on a New England Currier & Ives sort of town central pond, THEN I read the rest of your post. If I think of the movie...

I love the line about the Northern Star... "constantly in darkness." I had no idea it was about Cohen, but it makes sense. I thought it was a different sort of darkness.