I was walking in New York and I brushed up against the man in front of me. I a cardboard 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 - Please 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 school for 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 please pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, I've blinded totally, Oh don't pass me by.
And you know as I was walking I thought it was them who were it, I thought it was they who were it, I thought it was the other who was 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 pass 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 there deep in your velvet seats and you're thinking: "Uh, he's up there saying something that he thinks about, but I'll never have to sing song." But I promise you friends, that you're going to be singing 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 when the 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. don't pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, been blinded totally, Oh please don't 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, you be naked for me? It
Please pass me by, Oh please 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 you that will help you connect the blood night with the day that comes next. But I want it to you, I want it to end. Oh, you be naked for me? Oh
don't pass 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 pass me by.
Well I sing this song for you Beasts, I sing this 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 those that you talk at the coffee tables, at the meetings, and the demonstrations, on the streets, in music, in my songs. I the real ones 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, don't pass me by.
I know that you think that its me. I that you think that there's somebody else. I know that these words yours. But I you friends that one day
gonna get down on your knees, You're get down on your knees, gonna get down on your knees, You're gonna get down on knees, gonna get down on your knees, You're gonna get on your knees, You're gonna get on your knees, gonna get down on your knees, You're get down ...
Oh, don't pass me by, Oh, don't pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, been blinded oh, totally, Oh, please don't me by.
Well you know I my songs and I have my poems. I my book 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 with the freaks, I'm the hunted, I'm with 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 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 away my dignity, yes take my dignity. My friends, take my dignity, take my form, my style, take my honour, take my courage, take my time, take my 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. Wish you'd go home with someone else. I wish you'd go home with else. Don't be the person that you with. Oh, be the person that you came with, Oh don't be the person you came with. Ah, I'm not going to be. I stand 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, 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 been totally, Oh, don't pass me by.
I hope I see you out there on the corner. Yeah I hope as I go by that I you whisper with the breeze. Because I'm going to you now, I'm going to find me someone new. Find knew.
And please pass me by.