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 a streetlight, I could read it, it said: "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 to 14th Street. I saw on the corner curious mutilations of the form; It was a for handicapped people. And there were cripples, and people in and crutches. And it was snowing, and I got this sense that the whole was singing this:
Oh please pass me by, Oh please don't me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, I've blinded totally, Oh don't pass me by.
And you know as I was walking I thought it was them who were it, I it was they who were singing it, I thought it was the who was singing it, I thought it was 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 don't pass me by, yeah For I am blind, but you, you can see, Well, I've been totally, Oh don't pass me by.
Now I know that you're sitting there deep in velvet seats and you're thinking: "Uh, he's up there saying that he thinks about, but I'll never have to sing that song." But I promise you friends, that going 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 know the when the time comes. you gotta have to sing it to yourself, or to another, or to your brother. You gotta have to learn how to this song, it
don't pass 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 don't pass me by.
I sing 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 for a saviour with no one to save. Hey, won't you be for me? Hey, you be naked for me? It
Please pass me by, Oh please pass me by, For I am blind, oh but you can see, Yes, I've been oh, totally, Oh now, please pass me by.
Now there's nothing that I you that will help you connect the blood tortured with the day that comes next. But I it to hurt you, I want it to end. Oh, you be naked for me? Oh
Please 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 don't pass me by.
Well I this song for you Blonde Beasts, I sing this song for you Venuses upon 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 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 blinded totally, Oh no, please pass me by.
I know that you think that its me. I know that you think that there's else. I know that words aren't yours. But I tell you that one day
You're gonna get on your knees, You're gonna get on your knees, You're get down on your knees, You're get down on your knees, You're gonna get on your knees, You're gonna get down on knees, You're gonna get down on knees, gonna get down on your knees, You're get down ...
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 know I my songs and I have my poems. I have my book and I have the army, and sometimes I your applause. I make some money, but you 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 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, don't pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Oh I, I've been blinded, I've blinded totally, Oh now, please pass me by.
Now I to take away my dignity, yes take my dignity. My friends, take my dignity, take my form, my style, take my honour, take my courage, take my time, my time, . 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 someone else. Don't be the person that you with. Oh, don't be the person you came 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. why I've got to get down on my knees. Because I can't it by myself. I'm not by myself 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 pass me by, Oh, please don't me by, For I am blind, yes I am blind, oh but you can see, Yes, I've been 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 you whisper with the breeze. Because I'm going to you now, I'm going to find me someone new. Find knew.
And don't pass me by.