I was walking in New York City and I up against the man in front of me. I felt a placard on his back. And when we passed a streetlight, I could read it, it "Please pass me by - I am blind, but you can see - I've been blinded totally - Please don't 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 cripples, and people in wheelchairs and crutches. And it was snowing, and I got this sense that the whole was singing this:
Oh please pass me by, Oh 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.
And you know as I was I thought it was them 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 it was me, and that I was singing it to myself.
It don't pass me by. Oh please pass me by, yeah For I am blind, but you, you can see, Well, been blinded totally, Oh please pass me by.
Now I know that sitting there deep in your velvet seats and you're thinking: "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 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. 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 have to sing this . not for you. Please pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, been blinded totally, Oh please don't me by.
Well I sing for the Jews and the Gypsies and the smoke that they made. And I this 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
Please don't 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 don't me by.
Now there's nothing that I tell you will help you connect the blood tortured night with the day comes next. But I want it to you, I want it to end. Oh, won't you be for me? Oh
don't pass me by, Oh please don't 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 your 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 about 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 ones 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, I've blinded totally, Oh no, please don't me by.
I know that you still think its me. I that you think that there's somebody else. I know these words aren't yours. But I tell you that one day
You're gonna get on your knees, You're gonna get on your knees, You're gonna get down on knees, You're gonna get down on knees, You're gonna get down on knees, You're get down on your knees, You're gonna get down on knees, You're gonna get down on 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 been oh, totally, Oh, please pass me by.
Well you know I have my and I have my poems. I have my book and I the army, and sometimes I have your applause. I some money, but you know 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 with the down, I'm the poor. on now ... Oh... Ah, please don't 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 don't 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 I'm with 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. be the person that 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 stand him. I can't stand who I am. why I've got to get down on my knees. Because I make it by myself. I'm not by myself anymore because the man I was 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, please 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.
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 you now, I'm going to find me someone new. Find knew.
And please pass me by.