Dignity

Wise man lookin' in a blade of grass

Young man lookin' in shadows that pass

Poor man lookin' through painted glass

Fat man lookin' in a blade of steel

Thin man lookin' at his last meal

Hollow man lookin' in a cottonfield

For 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

I went down where the vultures feed

Would have got deeper, but there wasn't any need

I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of man

Wasn't any difference to me

Sick man lookin' for the doctor's cure

Lookin' at his hands for the lines that were

Into every masterpiece of literature

Blind man breakin' out of a trance

Puts both hands in the pockets of chance

Hopin' to find one circumstance

Of dignity

Footprints runnin' across silver sand

Steps goin' down into tatoo land

Met the sons of darkness and the sons of light

In the border towns of despair

No place to fade, I got no coat

I'm on the rolling river in a jerkin' boat

Trying to read a note somebody wrote

Englishman stranded in the blackheart wind

Combin' his hair back, his future looks thin

Bites the bullet and looks within

For dignity

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed

Dignity never been photographed

I went into the red, I 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 a lake

Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take

To find dignity

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