Dignity - Angelique Kidjo

There's a man i meet walks up our street He's a worker for the council Has been twenty years And he takes no lip off nobody And litter off the gutter Puts it in a bag And never seems to mutter And he packs his lunch in a "sunblest" bag The children call him "bogie" He never lets on But i know 'cause he once told me He let me know a secret about the money in his kitty He's gonna buy a dinghy Gonna call her dignity And i'll sail her up the west coast Through villages and towns I'll be on my holidays They'll be doing their rounds They'll ask me how i got her i'll say "i saved my money" They'll say isn't she pretty that ship called dignity And i'm telling this story In a faraway scene Sipping down raki And reading maynard keynes And i'm thinking about home and all that means And a place in the winter for dignity And i'll sail her up the west coast Through villages and towns I'll be on my holidays They'll be doing their rounds They'll ask me how i got her i'll say "i saved my money" They'll say isn't she pretty that ship called dignity I'll set it up, set it up, set it up Set it up, set it up, set it up Yeah, set it up again, set it up again Set it up again, set it up again Set it up, set it up, set it up Set it up, set it up, set it up Yeah, set it up again, set it up again Set it up again, set it up again And i'm thinking about home And i'm thinking about faith And i'm thinking about work And i'm thinking how good it would be To be here some day On a ship called dignity A ship called dignity That ship

Check up on some people now they all out dated, Bout the time last year they said I wouldn't make it Took it up some notches now I'm motivation Guess I found the sound same people hatin' Check up on some people now they all out dated, Bout the time last year they said I wouldn't make it Took it up some notches now I'm motivation Guess I found the sound same people hatin' I was on my grind who is he now Imma hit the stage with a big smile Going all for it like a rebound I think I'm the best who is he now Stayed in my lane told you that on the first one Had to stay patient batter up home room Knock it out the park Can't stand dark This Page here is pivotal But it's not my pinnacle I was think critical All about a band or two And they think that I'm passing through Stay up on yo grind Still you shine then Now they mad at you Then you let it stack Remember like I said a band or two Check up on some people now they all out dated, Bout the time last year they said I wouldn't make it Took it up some notches now I'm motivation Guess I found the sound same people hatin' Check up on some people now they all out dated, Bout the time last year they said I wouldn't make it Took it up some notches now I'm motivation Guess I found the sound same people hatin' Had to see it for myself Scenarios ain't working out Had to get it for myself I got up out my mama house I'm like 20 years old, And I'm still her baby, Told me keep my head up I see you getting lazy Just know I do it for the fam Know exactly who I am And that should never change If it do I went insane Used to want it for the fame Now I'm just coping with pain Check up on some people now they all out dated, Bout the time last year they said I wouldn't make it Took it up some notches now I'm motivation Guess I found the sound same people hatin' Check up on some people now they all out dated, Bout the time last year they said I wouldn't make it Took it up some notches now I'm motivation Guess I found the sound same people hatin'

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 "Don't want nobody see me talkin' to you" Said she could get killed if she told me what she knew About dignity I went down where the vultures feed I would've got 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 Footprints runnin' cross the sliver sand Steps goin' down into tattoo land I met the sons of darkness and the sons of light In the border towns 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 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

Angelique Kidjo Keep On Moving The Best Of Angelique Kidjo Summertime Summertime And the livin' is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high You're daddy's rich And your mom is good lookin' So hush little baby Don't you cry One of these mornings You're gonna rise up singing Then you spread your wings And fly to the sky But till the mornin' There's nothing can harm you With mama and daddy Standing by One of these mornings You're gonna rise up singing Then you spread your wings And fly to the sky But till that morning There's nothing can harm you With mama and daddy Standing by