I was in New York City and I brushed up against the man in front of me. I felt a placard on his back. And when we passed a streetlight, I could it, it said: "Please pass me by - I am blind, but you can see - I've been blinded totally - don't pass me by." I was along 7th Avenue, when I came to 14th Street. I saw on the corner curious mutilations of the form; It was a school for people. And there were cripples, and people in and crutches. And it was snowing, and I got this sense that the whole city was singing
Oh please don't me by, Oh don't pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, I've been totally, Oh please don't me by.
And you know as I was walking I thought it was who were singing it, I thought it was who were singing it, I thought it was the who was singing it, I it was someone else. But as I moved along I knew it was me, and that I was it to myself.
It Please don't me by. Oh don't pass me by, yeah For I am blind, but you, you can see, Well, been blinded totally, Oh please don't me by.
Now I know that you're sitting there deep in your velvet seats and you're "Uh, he's up there something that he thinks about, but I'll never have to sing that song." But I promise you friends, that you're going to be this song: it may not be tonight, it may not be tomorrow, but one day be on your knees And I you to know the words when the time comes. 'Cause you gotta have to it to yourself, or to another, or to your brother. You gotta to learn how to sing this song, it
Please pass me by, Ah you don't to sing this . not for you. Please pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, been blinded totally, Oh don't pass me by.
Well I sing this for the and the Gypsies and the smoke that they made. And I sing this for the children of England, faces so grave. And I sing for a saviour with no one to save. Hey, won't you be for me? Hey, you be naked for me? It
Please pass me by, Oh don't pass me by, For I am blind, oh but you can see, Yes, I've blinded oh, totally, Oh now, please pass me by.
Now nothing that I tell you that will help you connect the blood tortured night with the day that next. But I it to hurt you, I want it to end. Oh, you be naked for me? Oh
Please pass me by, Oh please don't me by, For I am blind, oh but you, you can see, Oh yes, I, been blinded oh, totally, Oh please pass me by.
Well I sing this for you Blonde Beasts, I sing this for you Venuses upon your shells on the foam of the sea. And I sing for the freaks and the cripples, and the hunchback, and the burned, and the burning, and the maimed, and the broken, and the torn, and all of that you talk about at the coffee tables, at the meetings, and the demonstrations, on the streets, in music, in my songs. I mean the ones that are burning, I mean the real ones that are burning. I say,
Please, don't me by, Oh now, please pass me by, For I am blind, yeah, but you, you can see, Ah now, I've been totally, Oh no, don't pass me by.
I know that you still think its me. I know that you think that there's else. I know these words aren't yours. But I tell you that one day
You're get down on your knees, You're gonna get down on knees, You're get down on your knees, gonna get down on your knees, You're gonna get on your knees, You're get down on your knees, You're gonna get on your knees, gonna get down on your knees, You're gonna get ...
Oh, please pass me by, Oh, don't pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, I've blinded oh, totally, Oh, please don't me by.
you know I have my songs and I have my poems. I have my book and I have the army, and I have your applause. I make some money, but you what my friends, I'm still out there on the corner. I'm with the freaks, I'm with the hunted, I'm the maimed, yes I'm with the torn, I'm the down, I'm with the poor. on now ... Oh... Ah, don't pass me by, Well got to go now friends, But, please don't me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Oh I, been blinded, I've been blinded totally, Oh now, please pass me by.
Now I want to away my dignity, yes take my dignity. My friends, my dignity, take my form, take my style, take my honour, take my courage, take my time, my time, . time . 'Cause you know I'm with you this song. And I wish you would, I you would, I wish you would go home with someone else. Wish you'd go home with someone else. I wish you'd go with someone else. Don't be the that you came with. Oh, don't be the person you came with, Oh don't be the that you came with. Ah, I'm not going to be. I can't him. I can't stand who I am. That's why I've got to get on my knees. Because I make it by myself. I'm not by myself because the man I was before he was a tyrant, he was a slave, he was in chains, he was broken and then he
Oh, please pass me by, Oh, please don't me by, For I am blind, yes I am blind, oh but you can see, Yes, been blinded totally, Oh, please don't me by.
I hope I see you out there on the corner. Yeah I hope as I go by that I hear you with the breeze. Because I'm going to leave you now, I'm going to find me new. Find knew.
And please don't me by.