Dignity - Joe Cocker
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 'I don't
Want nobody see me talkin' to you"
Said she could get killed if
She told me what she knew
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
So many roads so much at stake
To many dead ends
I'm at the edge of the lake
Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take
To find dignity