Dignity (Piano Demo, Oh Mercy)

Fat man lookin' in a shinning steel
Thin man lookin' at his last meal
Hollow man lookin' in a cotton field
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 last to leave
Went into the cities, went into the towns
To the land of the midnight sun

Searchin' high, searchin' low
Searchin' everywhere I know
Askin' the cops where ever I go
Have you seen dignity?

Blind man breakin' down of a trance
Puts both his hands into the pockets of chance
Hoping to find one circumstance
Of dignity.

Stranger stares down into the light
From a platinum window in the Mexican night
Searchin' every blood suckin' thing in sight
For dignity.

I went down where the vultures feed
Would've gone deeper but there wasn't any need
Heard the tongues of angels an' the tongues of men
It all sounded no different to me.

Soul of a nation is under the knife
Death is standin' in the doorway of life
In a next room a man fightin' with his wife
Over dignity.