Fat man lookin' in a blade of steel   Thin man lookin' at his last meal   Hollow man lookin' in a cottonfield   For dignity      Wise man lookin' in 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   Somebody said that dignity was the first to leave   I went into the city, into the town   Into the land of the midnight sun      Searchin' high, searchin' low   Searchin' everywhere I know   Askin' the cops wherever I go   Have you seen dignity?      Blind man breakin' out of a trance   Puts both of 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   She could get killed if she told me what she knew   About dignity      I went down where the vultures feed   I would've got deeper but there wasn't any need   I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men   And it wasn't any difference to me      Chilly wind sharp as a razor blade   House on fire, debts unpaid   Gonna stand at the window, gonna ask the maid   Have you seen 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 met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues   Said he'd give me information if his name wasn't Hugh   He wanted money up front, he said he'd been abused   By dignity      Footprints runnin' cross the silver sand   Steps goin' down into tattoo land   I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light   In the bordertowns of despair      Got no place to fade, got no coat   I'm on the rollin' river in a jerkin' boat   Tryin' to read a letter to me somebody wrote   About dignity      Sick man lookin' for the doctors cure   Lookin' at his hands for the lines that were   And into every masterpiece of literature   For dignity      Englishman stranded in the blackheart wind   Combin' his hair back, his future looks thin   He bites the bullet and he looks within   For dignity      Someone showed me a picture, I just had to laugh   Dignity never been photographed   I went into the red, went into the black   Went into the valley of dry bone dreams      So many roads, so much at stake   So many dead ends and I'm at the edge of the lake   Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take   To find dignity