Dignity

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Fat man lookin’ in a blade of steel,
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Thin man lookin’ at his last meal.
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Hollow man lookin’ in a cottonfield,
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For dignity.


[Verse 2]
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Wise man lookin’ in a blade of grass,
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Young man lookin’ in the shadows that pass.
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Poor man lookin’ through painted glass,
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....  find dignity.
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[Chorus 1]
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Somebody got murdered on New Year’s Eve,
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Somebody said dignity was the first to leave.
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I went into the city, went into the town,
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Went into the land of the midnight sun.


[Verse 3]
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Searchin’ high, searchin’ low,

Searchin’ everywhere I know.
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Askin’ the cops wherever I go,
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Have you seen dignity?
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[Verse 4]
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Blind man breakin’ out of a trance,
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Puts both his hands in the pockets of chance.
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Hopin’ to find one circumstance,
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Circumstance of dignity.


[Verse 5]
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I went to the wedding of Mary Lou,
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She said, “I don’t want nobody see me talkin’ to you”.
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Said she could get killed if she told me what she knew,
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What she new about dignity.
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[Chorus 2]
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I went down where the vultures feed,
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I would’ve gone deeper, but there wasn’t any need.
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Heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men,
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Wasn’t any difference to me.


[Verse 6]
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Chilly wind sharp as a razor blade,
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House on fire, debts unpaid.
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Gonna stand at the window, gonna ask the maid
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Have you seen dignity?
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[Verse 7]
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Drinkin’ man listens to the voice he hears,
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In a crowded room full of covered-up mirrors.
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Lookin’ into the lost forgotten years,
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to....   go find dignity.


[Verse 8]
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Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues,
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Said he’d give me information if his name wasn’t used.
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He wanted money up front, said he was abused.
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Was abused by dignity.


[Chorus 3]
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Footprints runnin’ ’cross the silver sand,
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Steps goin’ down into tattoo land.
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I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light,
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In the bordertowns of despair.


[Verse 9]
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Got no place to fade, got no coat,
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I’m on the rollin’ river in a jerkin’ boat.
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Tryin’ to read a note somebody wrote,
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What they wrote about dignity.


[Verse 10]
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Sick man lookin’ for the doctor’s cure,
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Lookin’ at his hands for the lines that were.
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And into every masterpiece of literature,
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Literature to find dignity.


[Verse 11]
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Englishman stranded in the blackheart wind,
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Combin’ his hair back, his future looks thin.
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Bites the bullet and he looks within,
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Looks within for dignity.
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[Chorus 3]
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Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed,
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Dignity never been photographed.
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I went into the red, went into the black,
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I went into the valley of dry bone dreams.


[Verse 12]
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So many roads, so much at stake,
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So many dead ends, I’m at the edge of the lake.
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Sometimes I wonder what it’s gonna take,
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For me to go find dignity
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For me to go find dignity
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For me to go find dignity
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For me to go find dignity
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