Dignity and Shame

Cover me in mud and leaves
 I won't be the one to fail you
 I'm a thousand gargoyles standing by your window
 To be sure there ain't no cure
 There could be no one to save you
 When the bad boys come to do you in again
 So when they tell you things that you don't want to know
 Or take you back to places you don't want to go
 You've got to bury that knife
 Keep your face in the light
 Because there's one thing that they cannot do
 Is take from you what you keep in mud and leaves
 And if you walk, walk away,
 save yourself, you've got something to lose
 And if you give what they take, you can bet they will take it from you
 You're not the same as the day that you came
 You can choose dignity or shame
 You've got to bury your bones where you want in the ground
 Where they will not be found by the leeches you're keeping alive
 There's a man in your hand
 And he's got nothing good to sell you
 And he's smashing a violin against your bed
 To be sure there ain't no cure
 He comes creeping back to beg you
 As thousand gargoyles crash into his head
 And then that feeling comes you've been here once before
 That wicked feeling you don't want to feel no more
 You've got to bury that knife
 That you keep stuck in your side
 Before they dig that knife into you
 And break into what you keep out of their reach
 And if you walk, walk away, save yourself, you've got nothing to prove
 And if you give what they take, you can bet they will take it from you
 You're not the same as the day that you came
 You can choose dignity or shame
 You've got to carry your heart like a torch in the night
 Little keeper of light burning deep, burning bright in the dark