I was walking in New York City and I brushed up the man in front of me. I a cardboard placard on his back. And when we passed a streetlight, I 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 corner curious of the human form; It was a school for people. And were cripples, and people in wheelchairs and crutches. And it was snowing, and I got this that the whole city was singing this:
Oh don't pass me by, Oh please pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, I've been totally, Oh please pass me by.
And you as I was walking I thought it was them who were singing 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 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, been blinded totally, Oh don't pass me by.
Now I know that you're sitting 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 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 the time comes. you gotta have 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 don't have to sing . not for you. don't pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, I've blinded totally, Oh don't pass me by.
Well I sing this for the Jews and the Gypsies and the that they made. And I sing this for the children of England, faces 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 pass me by, For I am blind, oh but you can see, Yes, been blinded oh, totally, Oh now, please don't me by.
Now there's nothing that I tell you that help you connect the blood tortured with the day that comes next. But I want it to you, I want 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, I've blinded oh, totally, Oh please pass me by.
Well I this song for you Blonde Beasts, I sing song for you Venuses upon your shells on the foam of the sea. And I sing 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 are burning, I mean the real ones that 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, don't pass me by.
I that you still think that its me. I know that you think that somebody else. I know that these words 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 down on knees, You're gonna get on your knees, You're gonna get down on knees, You're get down on your knees, You're gonna get down on knees, You're get down on your knees, You're get down ...
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 don't me by.
Well you know I have my and I have my poems. I have my book and I have the army, and sometimes I your applause. I some money, but you know what my friends, I'm still out there 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 the down, I'm with the poor. on now ... Oh... Ah, please pass 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 blinded totally, Oh now, please don't me by.
Now I to take 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, take my time, . . 'Cause you know I'm you singing this song. And I wish you would, I wish you would, I you would go home with someone else. Wish you'd go home with else. I wish you'd go home with someone else. Don't be the person that you with. Oh, don't be the person that you with, Oh be the person 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. I can't 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 broken and then he
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 been totally, Oh, don't pass me by.
Well I I see you out there 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. someone knew.
And please don't me by.