Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take
Searchin' everywhere I know
Sick man lookin' for the doctors cure
In a crowded room full of covered up mirrors
For dignity
For dignity
I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light
Englishman stranded in the blackheart wind
Footprints runnin' cross the silver sand
I went into the city, into the town
For dignity
He bites the bullet and he looks within
She could get killed if she told me what she knew
Chilly wind sharp as a razor blade
And into every masterpiece of literature
I would've got deeper but there wasn't any need
Hollow man lookin' in a cottonfield
Into the land of the midnight sun
Tryin' to read a letter to me somebody wrote
Combin' his hair back, his future looks thin
Dignity never been photographed
I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men
Poor man lookin' through painted glass
Someone showed me a picture, I just had to laugh
Of dignity
I went to the wedding of Mary Lou
Puts both of his hands in the pockets of chance
Somebody got murdered on New Year's Eve
I'm on the rollin' river in a jerkin' boat
And it wasn't any difference to me
Lookin' into the lost forgotten years
House on fire, debts unpaid
Gonna stand at the window, gonna ask the maid
Somebody said that dignity was the first to leave
Went into the valley of dry bone dreams
Young man lookin' in the shadows that pass
For dignity
She said I don't want nobody see me talkin' to you
In the bordertowns of despair
I met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues
Wise man lookin' in a blade of grass
By dignity
Searchin' high, searchin' low
Steps goin' down into tattoo land
So many roads, so much at stake
Got no place to fade, got no coat
I went down where the vultures feed
So many dead ends and I'm at the edge of the lake
Have you seen dignity?
For dignity
Askin' the cops wherever I go
Have you seen dignity?
About dignity
About dignity
Hopin' to find one circumstance
Drinkin' man listens to the voice he hears
Blind man breakin' out of a trance
Lookin' at his hands for the lines that were
Said he'd give me information if his name wasn't Hugh
He wanted money up front, he said he'd been abused
I went into the red, went into the black
