Dignity
Bob Dylan
Fat man lookin' in a blade of steel thin man lookin' at his last meal
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Hollow man lookin' in a cotton field 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 painted glass for dignity
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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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Searchin' high searchin' low searchin' everywhere I know
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Askin' the cops wherever I go "Have you seen Dignity?"
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Blind man breakin' out of a trance puts both his hands in the pocket of chance
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Hopin' to find one circumstance of dignity
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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
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I went down where the vultures feed
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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
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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 "Have you seen dignity?"
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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 forgotten years for dignity
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Met Prince Philip 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 said he was abused by dignity
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Footprints runnin' cross the silver sand
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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
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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 wrote about dignity
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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 literature for dignity
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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
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Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed
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Dignity never been photographed
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I went into the red went into the black
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Into the valley of dry bone dreams
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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 find dignity
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