I was walking in New York and I brushed up against the man in front of me. I felt a placard on his back. And we passed a streetlight, I could read it, it said: "Please pass me by - I am blind, but you can see - been blinded totally - Please don't pass me by." I was along 7th Avenue, when I came to 14th Street. I saw on the corner curious mutilations of the human It was a for handicapped people. And there were cripples, and 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 please don't me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, been blinded totally, Oh please don't me by.
And you know as I was walking I thought it was who were singing it, I thought it was they who 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 pass me by, yeah 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 in your velvet seats and you're thinking: "Uh, he's up there saying something he thinks about, but I'll never have to sing that song." But I promise you friends, you're going to be singing this 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 words the time comes. 'Cause you have to sing it to yourself, or to another, or to your brother. You gotta have to learn how to sing song, it
don't pass me by, Ah you have 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 pass me by.
Well I this for the Jews and the Gypsies and the smoke that they made. And I sing this for the children of England, their so grave. And I sing this for a saviour no one to save. Hey, you be naked for me? Hey, won't you be for me? It
Please pass me by, Oh please don't 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 will you connect the blood tortured night with the day comes next. But I want it to you, I want it to end. Oh, you be naked for me? Oh
Please don't me by, Oh please 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.
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 those that you about 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, don't pass me by, For I am blind, yeah, but you, you can see, Ah now, I've been totally, Oh no, please don't me by.
I that you still think that its me. I know that you think that there's else. I know these words aren't yours. But I tell you that one day
gonna get down on your knees, You're 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 down on knees, You're gonna get on your knees, You're get down on your knees, You're gonna get ...
Oh, don't 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, don't pass me by.
Well you know I have my songs and I my poems. I my book and I have the army, and sometimes I have your applause. I make 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 the torn, I'm with the down, I'm with the poor. on now ... Oh... Ah, please don't me by, Well got to go now friends, But, please don't me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Oh I, I've been blinded, I've been totally, Oh now, please pass me by.
Now I want to take my dignity, yes take 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 you would, I wish you would go home with someone else. Wish you'd go home with someone else. I you'd 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 that you came with. Ah, I'm not to be. I can't stand him. I can't stand who I am. That's why got to get down on my knees. Because I can't 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 broken and then he
Oh, please don't me by, Oh, please don't 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 as I go by that I hear you whisper with the breeze. Because I'm going to leave you now, I'm going to me someone new. Find knew.
And please pass me by.