I was walking in New City and I brushed up against the man in front of me. I a cardboard placard on his back. And when we a streetlight, I could read it, it said: "Please don't me by - I am blind, but you can see - I've been blinded - Please don't pass me by." I was walking along 7th Avenue, 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 people in and crutches. And it was snowing, and I got sense that the whole city was singing this:
Oh please don't me by, Oh don't pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, I've been totally, Oh don't pass me by.
And you know as I was walking I thought it was them who singing it, I thought it was they who were it, I thought it was the who was singing it, I it was someone else. But as I moved 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, been blinded totally, Oh please don't me by.
Now I that you're sitting there 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 this it may not be tonight, it may not be tomorrow, but one day you'll be on your And I want you to the words when the time 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 don't 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 that made. And I sing 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 don't pass me by, For I am blind, oh but you can see, Yes, been 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 the day that comes next. But I it to hurt you, I want it to end. Oh, you be naked 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 blinded oh, totally, Oh please pass me by.
I sing this song for you Blonde Beasts, I this song for you Venuses 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 talk 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 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, please don't me by.
I know that you think that its me. I know you think that there's somebody else. I know that words aren't yours. But I tell you friends one day
gonna get down on your knees, You're gonna get on your knees, You're get down on your knees, gonna get down on your 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 down on knees, gonna get down ...
Oh, please don't me by, Oh, please pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, I've blinded oh, totally, Oh, don't pass me by.
Well you know I have my and I have my poems. I my book and I have the army, and sometimes I have your applause. I make some money, but you 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 pass me by, I've 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, don't pass me by.
Now I to take away my dignity, yes take my dignity. My friends, take my dignity, take my form, my style, my honour, take my courage, take my time, take my time, . time . 'Cause you I'm with 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 you came with. Oh, be the person 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. I can't 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 broken and 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 blinded totally, Oh, please don't me by.
I hope I see you out there on the corner. Yeah I hope as I go by that I hear you with the breeze. Because I'm going to leave you now, I'm to find me someone new. Find knew.
And please don't me by.