Dignity - Piano Demo from 'Oh Mercy' sessions

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