I was in New York City and I brushed up against the man in front of me. I felt a placard 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 blinded totally - Please don't pass me by." I was walking along 7th Avenue, when I came to Street. I saw on the curious mutilations of the human 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 don't me by, Oh please pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, been blinded totally, Oh please don't me by.
And you as I was walking I thought it was them who were singing it, I thought it was who were 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 don't pass me by. Oh please don't pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Well, I've been totally, Oh please pass me by.
Now I know that you're sitting there deep in your 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 you'll be on your And I want you to know the when the time comes. 'Cause you gotta to sing 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 have to sing this . not for you. don't pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, I've been totally, Oh please don't me by.
Well I sing this for the Jews and the Gypsies and the smoke that made. And I this for the children 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 blinded oh, totally, Oh now, please don't me by.
Now there's nothing that I tell you that will help you the blood tortured night the day that comes next. But I want it to hurt you, I 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, been blinded oh, totally, Oh please don't me by.
Well I sing this for you Blonde Beasts, I sing this song for you 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 about at the 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 ones 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, been 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 that these words aren't yours. But I you friends that one day
gonna 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, 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 gonna get ...
Oh, don't pass me by, Oh, please don't me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, I've blinded oh, totally, Oh, please pass me by.
Well you know I my songs and I have my poems. I have my book and I the army, and sometimes I have your applause. I make some money, but you know what my friends, I'm still out 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, Well got to go now friends, But, please pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Oh I, been blinded, I've been blinded totally, Oh now, please don't me by.
Now I want to take away my dignity, yes my dignity. My friends, take my dignity, my form, take my style, take my honour, take my courage, take my time, take my time, . . you know I'm with you singing this song. And I wish you would, I wish you would, I wish you go home with someone else. Wish you'd go home with someone else. I wish you'd go home with else. Don't be the person you came with. Oh, don't be the person that you 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 got to get down on my knees. I can't make it by myself. I'm not by myself anymore 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 pass me by, Oh, please don't me by, For I am blind, yes I am blind, oh but you can see, Yes, been blinded totally, Oh, please don't 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 you now, I'm going to find me someone new. Find knew.
And please pass me by.