Dignity - Alternate Version

[00:09.12] Fat man lookin' in a blade of steel
[00:13.33] Thin man lookin' at his last meal
[00:17.38] Hollow man lookin' in a cottonfield
[00:21.07] For dignity
[00:25.95] Wise man lookin' in a blade of grass
[00:30.49] Young man lookin' in the shadows that pass
[00:34.93] Poor man lookin' through painted glass
[00:38.57] For dignity
[00:43.06] Somebody got murdered on New Year's Eve
[00:47.35] Somebody said dignity was the first to leave
[00:52.13] I went into the city, went into the town
[00:55.75] Went into the land of the midnight sun
[01:02.54] Searchin' high, searchin' low
[01:06.60] Searchin' everywhere I know
[01:10.16] Askin' the cops wherever I go
[01:14.77] Have you seen dignity?
[01:22.71] Blind man breakin' out of a trance
[01:27.28] Puts both his hands in the pockets of chance
[01:31.65] Hopin' to find one circumstance
[01:35.41] Of dignity
[01:39.43] I went to the wedding of Mary-Lou
[01:43.81] She said "Don't want nobody see me talkin' to you"
[01:48.07] Said she could get killed if she told me what she knew
[01:52.39] About dignity
[01:56.19] I went down where the vultures feed
[02:00.59] I would've got deeper, but there wasn't any need
[02:04.72] Heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men
[02:08.94] Wasn't any difference to me
[02:15.48] Chilly wind sharp as a razor blade
[02:19.25] House on fire, debts unpaid
[02:23.74] Gonna stand at the window, gonna ask the maid
[02:27.80] Have you seen dignity?
[02:39.89] Drinkin' man listens to the voice he hears
[02:44.12] In a crowded room full of covered up mirrors
[02:48.48] Lookin' into the lost forgotten years
[02:52.15] For dignity
[02:56.72] Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues
[03:00.71] Said he'd give me information if his name wasn't used
[03:04.72] He wanted money up front, said he was abused
[03:09.09] By dignity
[03:13.27] Footprints runnin' cross the sliver sand
[03:17.05] Steps goin' down into tattoo land
[03:21.44] I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light
[03:25.31] In the border towns of despair
[03:31.35] Got no place to fade, got no coat
[03:35.70] I'm on the rollin' river in a jerkin' boat
[03:39.48] Tryin' to read a note somebody wrote
[03:43.96] About dignity
[04:04.18] Sick man lookin' for the doctor's cure
[04:08.34] Lookin' at his hands for the lines that were
[04:12.68] And into every masterpiece of literature
[04:16.33] For dignity
[04:20.75] Englishman stranded in the blackheart wind
[04:24.86] Combin' his hair back, his future looks thin
[04:29.01] Bites the bullet and he looks within
[04:33.05] For dignity
[04:37.26] Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed
[04:41.44] Dignity never been photographed
[04:45.58] I went into the red, went into the black
[04:49.34] Into the valley of dry bone dreams
[04:56.20] So many roads, so much at stake
[04:59.63] So many dead ends, I'm at the edge of the lake
[05:03.84] Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take
[05:07.98] To find dignity
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