I was walking in New City and I brushed up against the man in front of me. I a cardboard placard on his back. And we passed a streetlight, I could read it, it said: "Please don't me by - I am blind, but you can see - been blinded totally - Please don't pass me by." I was along 7th Avenue, when 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 that the whole was singing this:
Oh please pass me by, Oh don't pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, been blinded totally, Oh please pass me by.
And you as I was walking I thought it was them who were singing it, I thought it was they who were 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 don't me by. Oh please don't 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 and you're thinking: "Uh, he's up there saying something that he thinks about, but 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 you'll be on knees And I want you to know the words the time comes. 'Cause you gotta have to sing it to yourself, or to another, or to brother. You gotta have to learn how to sing song, it
Please pass me by, Ah you don't have to sing . not for you. don't pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, been blinded totally, Oh please 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, their so grave. And I sing this for a with no one to save. Hey, won't you be for me? Hey, you be naked for me? It
don't pass me by, Oh please pass me by, For I am blind, oh but you can see, Yes, been blinded oh, totally, Oh now, please don't me by.
Now there's nothing I tell you that will help you connect the blood tortured night with the day comes next. But I want it to hurt you, I it to end. Oh, you be naked for me? Oh
Please don't me by, Oh please pass me by, For I am blind, oh but you, you can see, Oh yes, I, I've been oh, totally, Oh please don't me by.
Well I this song for you Blonde Beasts, I sing this song for you Venuses upon 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 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 that are burning, I mean the real ones that are burning. I say,
Please, pass me by, Oh now, please pass me by, For I am blind, yeah, but you, you can see, Ah now, I've blinded totally, Oh no, please pass me by.
I know that you still that its me. I that you think that there's somebody else. I know that words aren't yours. But I tell you that one day
You're gonna get down on knees, You're gonna get down on knees, gonna get down on your knees, You're gonna get 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 down on knees, You're get down ...
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.
Well you know I have my songs and I my poems. I have my book and I have the army, and sometimes I have applause. I make some money, but you know 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 with the down, I'm the poor. on now ... Oh... Ah, please don't me by, Well got to go now friends, But, please pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Oh I, I've been blinded, I've blinded totally, Oh now, please don't me by.
Now I want to take 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 know I'm you singing this song. And I wish you would, I wish you would, I wish you would go with someone else. Wish you'd go home with someone else. I wish 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 that you came with. Ah, I'm not going to be. I can't stand him. I can't who I am. why I've got to get down on my knees. Because I can't 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 he sang:
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, I've blinded totally, Oh, don't pass me by.
Well I I see you out there on the corner. Yeah I hope as I go by that I hear you whisper the breeze. Because I'm going to leave you now, I'm going to me someone new. someone knew.
And please don't me by.