Dignity
[00:10]Fat man lookin’ in a blade of steel
[00:14]Thin man lookin’ at his last meal
[00:19]Hollow man lookin’ in a cottonfield
[00:22]For dignity
[00:27]Wise man lookin’ in a blade of grass
[00:31]Young man lookin’ in the shadows that pass
[00:35]Poor man lookin’ through painted glass
[00:39]For dignity
[00:44]Somebody got murdered on New Year’s Eve
[00:48]Somebody said dignity was the first to leave
[00:52]I went into the city, went into the town
[00:56]Went into the land of the midnight sun
[01:03]Searchin’ high, searchin’ low
[01:07]Searchin’ everywhere I know
[01:11]Askin’ the cops wherever I go
[01:15]Have you seen dignity?
[01:24]Blind man breakin’ out of a trance
[01:28]Puts both his hands in the pockets of chance
[01:32]Hopin’ to find one circumstance
[01:36]Of dignity
[01:40]I went to the wedding of Mary Lou
[01:44]She said, “I don’t want nobody see me talkin’ to you”
[01:48]Said she could get killed if she told me what she knew
[01:52]About dignity
[01:57]I went down where the vultures feed
[02:01]I would’ve gone deeper, but there wasn’t any need
[02:05]Heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men
[02:09]Wasn’t any difference to me
[02:16]Chilly wind sharp as a razor blade
[02:20]House on fire, debts unpaid
[02:24]Gonna stand at the window, gonna ask the maid
[02:28]Have you seen dignity?
[02:41]Drinkin’ man listens to the voice he hears
[02:44]In a crowded room full of covered-up mirrors
[02:49]Lookin’ into the lost forgotten years
[02:52]For dignity
[02:57]Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues
[03:01]Said he’d give me information if his name wasn’t used
[03:05]He wanted money up front, said he was abused
[03:09]By dignity
[03:13]Footprints runnin’ ’cross the silver sand
[03:17]Steps goin’ down into tattoo land
[03:21]I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light
[03:25]In the bordertowns of despair
[03:32]Got no place to fade, got no coat
[03:36]I’m on the rollin’ river in a jerkin’ boat
[03:40]Tryin’ to read a note somebody wrote
[03:44]About dignity
[04:05]Sick man lookin’ for the doctor’s cure
[04:09]Lookin’ at his hands for the lines that were
[04:13]And into every masterpiece of literature
[04:16]For dignity
[04:21]Englishman stranded in the blackheart wind
[04:25]Combin’ his hair back, his future looks thin
[04:29]Bites the bullet and he looks within
[04:33]For dignity
[04:37]Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed
[04:41]Dignity never been photographed
[04:45]I went into the red, went into the black
[04:50]Into the valley of dry bone dreams
[04:56]So many roads, so much at stake
[05:00]So many dead ends, I’m at the edge of the lake
[05:04]Sometimes I wonder what it’s gonna take
[05:08]To find dignity