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