I was walking in New York City and I brushed up against the man in of me. I felt a cardboard on his back. And when we passed a streetlight, I read it, it said: "Please don't me by - I am blind, but you can see - I've been blinded totally - don't pass me by." I was walking along 7th Avenue, when I to 14th Street. I saw on the corner curious mutilations of the human It was a for handicapped people. And there cripples, and people in wheelchairs and crutches. And it was snowing, and I got this that the whole city was singing this:
Oh please pass me by, Oh don't pass 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 thought it was who were singing it, I it was they who were singing it, I thought it was the who was singing it, I thought it was 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 please don't me by, yeah For I am blind, but you, you can see, Well, I've blinded totally, Oh please don't me by.
Now I know you're sitting there deep in your velvet seats and you're thinking: "Uh, he's up 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 when the time comes. you gotta have to sing it to yourself, or to another, or to your brother. You have to learn how to sing this song, it
Please don't me by, Ah you don't to sing this . not for you. Please don't me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, I've blinded totally, Oh please don't me by.
Well I sing this for the Jews and the Gypsies and the smoke they made. And I sing for the children of England, their faces so grave. And I sing for a saviour with no one to save. Hey, you be naked for me? Hey, you be naked 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 blinded oh, totally, Oh now, don't pass me by.
Now there's nothing that I tell you that help you connect the blood tortured with the day that comes next. But I want it to you, I want it to end. Oh, you be naked for me? Oh
Please pass me by, Oh don't pass me by, For I am blind, oh but you, you can see, Oh yes, I, I've blinded oh, totally, Oh please pass me by.
I sing this song for you Blonde Beasts, I sing song for you Venuses upon your shells on the foam of the sea. And I this 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 real that are burning, I mean the real ones that are burning. I say,
Please, don't me by, Oh now, don't pass me by, For I am blind, yeah, but you, you can see, Ah now, been blinded totally, Oh no, please pass me by.
I know that you still think its me. I know that you think that somebody else. I that these words aren't yours. But I tell you that one day
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 down on knees, gonna get down on your knees, You're get down on your knees, You're gonna get down on knees, You're get down ...
Oh, don't pass me by, Oh, please don't me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, been blinded oh, totally, Oh, please pass me by.
Well you I have my songs and I have my poems. I have my and I have the army, and sometimes I have your applause. I make some money, but you know what my friends, I'm out there on the corner. I'm the freaks, I'm with 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, don't 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 been blinded, I've blinded totally, Oh now, please pass me by.
Now I want to take away my dignity, yes my dignity. My friends, my dignity, take my form, take my style, take my honour, my courage, take 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 home with 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, be the person that you came 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 make 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, don't pass me by, Oh, don't pass 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 hope I see you out on the corner. Yeah I hope as I go by I hear you whisper with the breeze. Because I'm going to leave you now, I'm to find me someone new. someone knew.
And please don't me by.