Tonart: C major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Fat man lookin' in a blade of steel,
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thin man lookin' at his last meal
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Hollow man lookin' in a
Verse 2
cottonfield for dignity
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Wise man lookin' in a blade of grass,
young man lookin' in the shadows
That pass
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Poor man lookin' through
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painted glass for dignity
Verse 3
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CHORUS #1:
Somebody got murdered
on New Year's Eve
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Somebody said dignity was the first to leave
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I went into the city, went into the town
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Went into the land of the midnight sun
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Verse 4
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Searchin' high, searchin' low,
searchin' everywhere I know
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Askin' the cops wherever I go,
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"Have you seen Dignity?"
Verse 5
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Blind man breakin' out of a trance,
puts both his hands in the pocket of
Chance
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Verse 6
I went to the wedding of Mary- lou,
she said I don't want nobody see me
Talkin to you
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Said she could get killed if she told me
what she knew about dignity
Verse 7
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CHORUS #2:
I went down where the vultures feed
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I would've gone deeper,
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but there wasn't any need
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Heard the tongues of angels an d the tongues of men,
Difference to me
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Verse 8
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Chilly wind sharp as a razor blade,
house on fire, debts unpaid
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Gonna stand at the window, gonna ask the maid,
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"Have you seen dignity?"
Interlude 1
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Verse 9
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Drinkin' man listens to the voice he hears
In a crowded room full
of covered up mirrors
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Lookin' into the lost forgot
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Verse 10
Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues
Said he'd give me information
if his name wasn't used
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He wanted money up front,
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said he was abused by dignity
Verse 11
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CHORUS #3:
Footprints runnin' cross the silver sand,
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steps goin' down into ta too
Land
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I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light,
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in the bordertowns of
Despair
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Verse 12
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Got no place to fade, got no coat,
I'm on the rollin' river in a jerkin'
Boat
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Tryin' to read a note somebody
Interlude 2
wrote about dignity
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Verse 13
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Sick man lookin' for the doctor's cure,
lookin' at his hands for the
Lines that were
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And into every masterpiece of
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Verse 14
Englishman stranded in the
blackheart wind
Combin his hair back his future looks thin
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Bites the bullet and he looks
within for dignity
Verse 15
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CHORUS #4:
Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed,
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I went into the red, went into the black,
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into the valley of dry bone
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Dreams
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Verse 16
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So many roads, so much at stake,
so many dead ends, I'm at the edge of
The lake
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Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take to
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find dignity
Outro 1
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