Dignity Lyrics - Nana Mouskouri

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 

CHORUS #1: 

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 pocket of 

chance 

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 

Said she could get killed if she told me what she knew about dignity 

CHORUS #2: 

I went down where the vultures feed 

I would've gone deeper, but there wasn't any need 

Heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men, wasn't any 

difference to me 

Chilly wind sharp as a razor blade, house on fire, debts unpaid 

Gonna stand at the window, gonna ask the maid, "Have you seen dignity?" 

Drinkin' man listens to the voice he hears 

In a crowded room full of covered up mirrors 

Lookin' into the lost forgotten years for dignity 

Met Prince Phillip at the home of the blues 

Said he'd give me information if his name wasn't used 

He wanted money up front, said he was abused by dignity 

CHORUS #3: 

Footprints runnin' cross the silver sand, steps goin' down into tatoo 

land 

I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light, in the bordertowns of 

despair 

Got no place to fade, got no coat, I'm on the rollin' river in a jerkin' 

boat 

Tryin' to read a note somebody wrote about dignity 

Sick man lookin' for the doctor's cure, lookin' at his hands for the 

lines that were 

And into every masterpiece of literature for dignity 

Englishman stranded in the blackheart wind 

Combin his hair back his future looks thin 

Bites the bullet and he looks within for dignity 

CHORUS #4: 

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been 

photographed 

I went into the red, went into the black, into the valley of dry bone 

dreams 

So many roads, so much at stake, so many dead ends, I'm at the edge of 

the lake 

Sometimes I wonder what it's gonna take to find dignity