Fat man looking in a blade of steel
Thin man looking in his last meal
Holy man looking at a cotton field
For dignity
Wise man looking in a blade of grass
Young man looking in a shadow that passed
Poor man looking through a painted glass For dignity
Somebody got murdered on
New Year's Eve
Somebody said dignity was the first to leave
I went into the city and went into the town
Went through the land of the midnight sun
Searching high,
searching low Searching everywhere I know
Asking the cops wherever
I go
Have you seen dignity?
Blind man breaking out of a trance Puts
both his hands in the pockets of chance
Hopping to find one circumstance of dignity
I went to the wedding of Mary Lou Said I
don't want nobody to see me talking to you
Said she could get killed if she told me what she knew
But dignity I went down where the vultures feed
I would have gone deeper but that wasn't really need
Heard the lounges of angels and the lounges of man
Was any difference to me?
Chili went sharp as a razor blade House of fire,
debts are paid
Gonna stand on the window, gonna ask the maid
Have you seen dignity?
Drinking man listens to the voice he hears
In the crowded room for the covered-up ears
Looking into the last forgotten years For dignity
Met Mitch Phillips at the home of the blues
Said he'd give information if his name wasn't
used He wanted the money up front, said he was
abused By dignity
Footprints running across the silver sand
Steps going down in the tattooed land
Met the sons of darkness and the sons
of light In the border town of despair
Got no place to fade,
got no cause I'm on the rolling river
in a jerking boat
Trying to read a note somebody wrote
By dignity
Sitting here looking for the doctor's cure
Looking at hands for the lines that were
And if they have a masterpiece of literature For dignity
Englishman standing in the blackout winds Combing his hair back,
his future looks dim
He bites the bullet and he looks within For dignity
Someone showed a picture and I just laughed
Dignity never been photographed
I went into the reds,
I went into the black Into the valley of dry footprints
So many roads,
so much at stake
So many dead ends, I'm at the edge of the lake
Sometimes I wonder
what's gonna take
To find dignity