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 men looking in a blade of grass,
young men looking in a shadow that passed,
poor men 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 to 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,
hoping to find one circumstance of dignity.
I went to the wedding of Mary
and said hello.
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 there wasn't really need.
With the lounges of angels and the lounges of mine,
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 accused by dignity.
Footprints running across the silver sand,
steps going down in the title land.
Met the
sons of darkness and the sons of
light in the border towns 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,
but 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 ***.
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 pot dreams.
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.
Dignity.