Dignity

Fat man lookin' in a blade of steel
 Thin man lookin' at his last meal
 Hollow man lookin' at a cottonfield
 For dignity
 Wise man lookin' at 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
 Someone said dignity was the first to leave
 I went into the city, I went into the town
 Went to the land of the midnight sun
 Searchin' high, searchin' low
 Searchin' everywhere I know
 Askin' the cops wherever I go
 Have you seen dignity?
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 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 be killed, if she told me what she knew
 About dignity
 Footprints runnin' cross the silver sand
 Steps fallin' down into tattoo land
 I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light
 In the bordertowns of despair
 So many roads, so much at stake
 Too many dead ends, I'm at the edge of the lake
 Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take
 To find dignity