A bird sitting on a power line is not electrocuted because it's ungrounded. I'm pretty sure that's what Cohen meant, having grown up in the 50s and 60s with above ground power lines everywhere. Ungrounded, uncentered, searching for meaning but knowing what he loved. BTW Kriss Kristoferson has said he will engrave the first verse on his headstone.
A bird sitting on a power line is not electrocuted because it's ungrounded. I'm pretty sure that's what Cohen meant, having grown up in the 50s and 60s with above ground power lines everywhere. Ungrounded, uncentered, searching for meaning but knowing what he loved. BTW Kriss Kristoferson has said he will engrave the first verse on his headstone.