[Intro]
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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
F# C#
Hollow man lookin’ in a cottonfield
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For dignity
[Verse 2]
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Wise man lookin’ in a blade of grass
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Young man lookin’ in the shadows that pass
F# C#
Poor man lookin’ through painted glass
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For dignity
[Bridge 1]
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Somebody got murdered on New Year’s Eve
F# C#
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
[Verse 3]
C# F#/C#
Searchin’ high, searchin’ low
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Searchin’ everywhere I know
F# C#
Askin’ the cops wherever I go
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Have you seen dignity?
[Verse 4]
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Blind man breakin’ out of a trance
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Puts both his hands in the pockets of chance
F# C#
Hopin’ to find one circumstance
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Of dignity
[Verse 5]
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I went to the wedding of Mary Lou
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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
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About dignity
[Bridge 2]
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I went down where the vultures feed
F# C#
I would’ve gone deeper, but there wasn’t any need
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Heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men
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Wasn’t any difference to me
[Verse 6]
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Chilly wind sharp as a razor blade
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House on fire, debts unpaid
F# C#
Gonna stand at the window, gonna ask the maid
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Have you seen dignity?
[Interlude]
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[Verse 7]
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Drinkin’ man listens to the voice he hears
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In a crowded room full of covered-up mirrors
F# C#
Lookin’ into the lost forgotten years
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For dignity
[Verse 8]
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Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues
C# C#7
Said he’d give me information if his name wasn’t used
F# C#
He wanted money up front, said he was abused
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By dignity
[Bridge 3]
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Footprints runnin’ ’cross the silver sand
F# C#
Steps goin’ down into tattoo 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
[Verse 9]
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Got no place to fade, got no coat
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I’m on the rollin’ river in a jerkin’ boat
F# C#
Tryin’ to read a note somebody wrote
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About dignity
[Interlude]
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[Verse 10]
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Sick man lookin’ for the doctor’s cure
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Lookin’ at his hands for the lines that were
F# C#
And into every masterpiece of literature
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For dignity
[Verse 11]
C#
Englishman stranded in the blackheart wind
C#
Combin’ his hair back, his future looks thin
F# C#
Bites the bullet and he looks within
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For dignity
[Bridge 4]
G#
Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed
F# C#
Dignity never been photographed
F# C#/F
I went into the red, went into the black
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Into the valley of dry bone dreams
[Verse 12]
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So many roads, so much at stake
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So many dead ends, I’m at the edge of the lake
F# C#
Sometimes I wonder what it’s gonna take
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To find dignity
[Outro]
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(fade out)