I was in New York City and I brushed up against the man in front of me. I felt a cardboard 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 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 cripples, and people in wheelchairs and crutches. And it was snowing, and I got this sense that the whole was singing this:
Oh please don't me by, Oh please pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, I've been totally, Oh please don't 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 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 Please don't me by. Oh please pass me by, yeah For I am blind, but you, you can see, Well, I've been 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 saying something that he thinks about, but I'll never have to sing that song." But I you friends, that you're 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 words when the comes. 'Cause you 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 have to sing . not for you. Please pass me by, For I am blind, but you, you can see, Yes, I've blinded totally, Oh please don't me by.
Well I sing this for the Jews and the Gypsies and the smoke they made. And I sing for the children of England, their faces so grave. And I sing this for a with no one to save. Hey, won't you be for me? Hey, you be naked for me? It
Please pass me by, Oh don't 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 will help you the blood night with the day that comes next. But I it to hurt you, I want it to end. Oh, won't you be for me? Oh
Please don't 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 sing this for you Blonde Beasts, I sing this 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 you talk 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 don't 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 know that you still think its me. I know that you think that there's else. I know that words aren't yours. But I tell you friends one day
You're get down on your knees, You're gonna get down on knees, gonna get down on your knees, You're get down on your knees, You're gonna get down on 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 ...
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, don't pass me by.
Well you I have my songs and I have my poems. I have my book and I have the army, and sometimes I have applause. I some 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 with the torn, I'm with the down, I'm the poor. on now ... Oh... Ah, please pass me by, I've 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, don't pass me by.
Now I to take away my dignity, yes take my dignity. My friends, take my dignity, my form, take my style, my honour, take my courage, take my time, take my time, . time . 'Cause you know I'm with you this song. And I wish you would, I wish you would, I you would go home with someone else. Wish you'd go home someone else. I wish you'd go home with someone else. Don't be the person that you with. Oh, don't be the person you came with, Oh don't be the person 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 anymore 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, don't pass me by, For I am blind, yes I am blind, oh but you can see, Yes, been blinded totally, Oh, please pass me by.
I hope I see you out there on the corner. Yeah I hope as I go by that I 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.