Fat man lookin' in a blade of steel
Thin man lookin' at his last meal
Hollow man lookin' in a cottonfield

For dignity

Wise man lookin' in a blade of grass

Young man lookin' in the shadows that pass
Poor man lookin' through 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, went into the town
Went into the land of the midnight sun


Searchin' high, searchin' low
Searchin' everywhere I know
Askin' the cops wherever I go

Have you seen dignity?

Blind man breakin' out of a trance

Puts both his hands in the pockets of chance
Hopin' to find one circumstance
Of dignity


I went to the wedding of Mary-lou
She said ?I don't want nobody see me talkin' to you?

Said she could get killed if she told me what she knew
About dignity


I went down where the vultures feed
I would've got deeper, but there wasn't any need
Heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men

Wasn't any difference to me

Chilly wind sharp as a razor blade

House on fire, debts unpaid
Gonna stand at the window, gonna ask the maid
Have you seen dignity?


Drinkin' man listens to the voice he hears


In a crowded room full of covered up mirrors
Lookin' into the lost forgotten years
For dignity


Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues
Said he'd give me information if his name wasn't used

He wanted money up front, said he was abused
By dignity


Footprints runnin' cross the silver sand
Steps goin' down into tattoo land
I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light

In the bordertowns of despair

Got no place to fade, got no coat

I'm on the rollin' river in a jerkin' boat
Tryin' to read a note somebody wrote
About dignity


Sick man lookin' for the doctor's cure
Lookin' at his hands for the lines that were

And into every masterpiece of literature
for dignity


Englishman stranded in the blackheart wind
Combin' his hair back, his future looks thin
Bites the bullet and he looks within

For dignity

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed

Dignity never been photographed
I went into the red, went into the black
Into the valley of dry bone dreams


So many roads, so much at stake
So many dead ends, I'm at the edge of the lake
Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take
To find dignity