I was walking in New York City and I up against the man in front of me. I felt a cardboard on his back. And when we passed a streetlight, I could read it, it "Please don't me by - I am blind, but you can see - been 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 for handicapped people. And there cripples, and people in wheelchairs and crutches. And it was snowing, and I got sense that the whole city was singing this:
Oh don't pass me by, Oh don't pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, I've blinded totally, Oh please pass me by.
And you know as I was walking I it was them who were singing it, I thought it was they who singing it, I thought it was the who was singing it, I it was someone else. But as I moved along I knew it was me, and I was singing it to myself.
It Please pass me by. Oh don't pass me by, yeah For I am blind, but you, you can see, Well, been blinded totally, Oh please pass me by.
Now I that you're sitting there deep in your velvet seats and you're thinking: "Uh, up there saying something that he thinks about, but I'll never have to sing that song." But I promise you friends, that you're to be singing this song: it may not be tonight, it may not be tomorrow, but one day be on your knees And I want you to the words 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 blinded totally, Oh please pass me by.
Well I sing this for the Jews and the Gypsies and the smoke 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, won't you be for me? Hey, you be naked for me? It
Please don't me by, Oh please pass me by, For I am blind, oh but you can see, Yes, I've blinded oh, totally, Oh now, please pass me by.
Now there's nothing that I you that will help you connect the blood tortured night the day that comes next. But I want it to hurt you, I it to end. Oh, won't you be 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 song for you Blonde Beasts, I sing this song for you upon your shells on the foam of the sea. And I sing this for the 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 ones that are burning, I mean the real ones that are burning. I say,
Please, don't me by, Oh now, please 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 there's somebody else. I know that words aren't yours. But I tell you friends one day
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 gonna get on your knees, You're gonna get on your knees, gonna get down on your knees, You're get down on your knees, You're gonna get ...
Oh, please pass me by, Oh, please pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, I've been oh, totally, Oh, please don't me by.
Well you I have 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 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 the torn, I'm with 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 blinded, I've been blinded totally, Oh now, please pass me by.
Now I want to take my dignity, yes take my dignity. My friends, take my dignity, my form, take my style, take my honour, take my courage, take my time, my time, . time . 'Cause you know I'm with you this song. And I wish you would, I you would, I wish you would go home with someone else. Wish go home with someone else. I wish you'd go home with someone else. Don't be the that you came with. Oh, don't be the that you came with, Oh don't be the that you came with. Ah, I'm not going to be. I can't 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 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, please 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.
I hope I see you out there 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 going to find me new. someone knew.
And don't pass me by.