Dignity

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 dignity was the first to leave

I went into the city, went into the town

Went 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 his hands in the pockets of chance

Hopin' to find one circumstance

Of dignity



I went to the wedding of mary-lou

She said