I was walking in New York City and I brushed up the man in front of me. I felt a cardboard on his back. And when we a streetlight, I could read it, it said: "Please pass me by - I am blind, but you can see - I've been totally - Please don't pass me by." I was walking along 7th Avenue, I came to 14th Street. I saw on the corner curious of the human form; It was a for handicapped people. And there were cripples, and people in and crutches. And it was snowing, and I got this sense the whole city was singing this:
Oh please don't me by, Oh please don't me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, I've been totally, Oh please pass me by.
And you know as I was walking I it was them who were singing it, I thought it was they who singing it, I thought it was the who was singing it, I thought it was else. But as I along I knew it was me, and that I was singing it to myself.
It Please pass me by. Oh please don't pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Well, I've blinded totally, Oh please pass me by.
Now I know that you're sitting there deep in your velvet seats and you're "Uh, up there saying 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 want you to know the words the time comes. 'Cause you gotta to sing it to yourself, or to another, or to your brother. You have to learn how to sing this song, it
Please pass me by, Ah you don't have to sing . not for you. Please pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, I've blinded totally, Oh please pass me by.
Well I this for the Jews and the Gypsies and the smoke that they made. And I sing this for the of England, their faces so grave. And I this for a saviour with no one to save. Hey, you be naked for me? Hey, won't you be for me? It
don't pass me by, Oh don't pass me by, For I am blind, oh but you can see, Yes, I've been oh, totally, Oh now, please pass me by.
Now there's nothing that I tell you that help you connect the blood tortured night with the day comes next. But I it to hurt you, I want it to end. Oh, you be naked for me? Oh
Please don't me by, Oh don't pass me by, For I am blind, oh but you, you can see, Oh yes, I, I've been oh, totally, Oh please pass me by.
Well I sing this song for you Beasts, I sing this song for you Venuses upon your shells on the 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 those that you talk at the coffee tables, at the meetings, and the demonstrations, on the streets, in music, in my songs. I mean the real ones that are burning, I mean the real that are burning. I say,
Please, don't me by, Oh now, please don't me by, For I am blind, yeah, but you, you can see, Ah now, I've been totally, Oh no, please pass me by.
I know that you still think its me. I know that you think there's somebody else. I know that words aren't yours. But I tell you friends one day
gonna get down on your knees, You're gonna get down on knees, You're gonna get down on knees, You're get down on your knees, You're get down on your knees, You're gonna get on your knees, You're gonna get on your knees, You're gonna get on your knees, You're get down ...
Oh, please pass me by, Oh, please don't me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, I've been oh, totally, Oh, don't pass me by.
Well you know I my songs and I have my poems. I have my book and I have the army, and sometimes I your applause. I make some money, but you know what my friends, I'm out there on the corner. I'm with the freaks, I'm the hunted, I'm with the maimed, yes I'm with the torn, I'm with the down, I'm the poor. on now ... Oh... Ah, please pass me by, I've got to go now friends, But, please pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Oh I, I've blinded, I've been blinded totally, Oh now, don't pass me by.
Now I want to away my dignity, yes take my dignity. My friends, take my dignity, take my form, my style, take my honour, take my courage, my time, take my time, . time . 'Cause you I'm with you singing this song. And I wish you would, I wish you would, I wish you would go with someone else. you'd go home with someone else. I wish you'd go home with someone else. Don't be the person you came with. Oh, don't be the person that you with, Oh don't be the person that you with. Ah, I'm not going to be. I can't him. I can't stand who I am. why I've got to get down on my knees. Because I can't it by myself. I'm not by anymore because the man I was before he was a tyrant, he was a slave, he was in chains, he was and then he sang:
Oh, please don't me by, Oh, don't pass me by, For I am blind, yes I am blind, oh but you can see, Yes, been blinded totally, Oh, don't pass me by.
Well I hope I see you out 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 to find me someone new. someone knew.
And don't pass me by.