Текст песни Please Don't Pass Me By (A Disgrace) (Leonard Cohen) с переводом

I was walking in New York City and I brushed up against the man in front of me

I felt a cardboard placard on his back

And when we passed a streetlight, I could read it, it said:

«Please don’t pass me by — I am blind, but you can see —

I’ve been blinded totally — Please don’t pass me by.»

I was walking along 7th Avenue, when I came to 14th Street

I saw on the corner curious mutilations of the human form

It was a, a school for handicapped people

And there were cripples, and people in wheelchairs and crutches

And it was snowing, and I got this sense that the whole city was singing this:

Oh please, don’t pass me by

Oh please, don’t pass me by

For I am blind, but you, you can see

Yes, I’ve been blinded totally

Oh please, don’t pass me by

And you know as I was walking I thought it was them who were singing it

I thought it was they who were singing it

I thought it was the other who was singing it

I thought it was someone else

But as I moved along I knew it was me, and that I was singing it to myself

It went:

Please don’t pass me by

Oh please, don’t pass me by, yeah

For I am blind, but you, you can see

Well, I’ve been blinded totally

Oh please, don’t pass me by

Oh please, don’t pass me by

Now I know 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 sing that song.»

But I promise you friends, that you’re gonna be singing this song:

may not be tonight

May not be tomorrow, but one day you’ll be on your knees

And I want you to know the words when the time comes

'Cause you gotta have to sing it to yourself, or to another, or to your brother

You gotta have to learn how to sing this song

It goes:

Please don’t pass me by

Ah you don’t have to sing this. not for you

Please don’t pass me by

For I am blind, but you, you can see

Yes, I’ve been blinded totally

Oh please, don’t pass me by

Well, 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 faces so grave

And I sing this for a saviour with no one to save

Hey, won’t you be naked for me?

Hey, won’t you be naked for me?

It goes:

Please don’t pass me by

Oh please, don’t pass me by

For I am blind, oh but you can see

Yes, I’ve been blinded oh, totally

Oh now, please don’t pass me by

Now there’s nothing that I tell you that will help you connect

The blood tortured night with the day that comes next

But I want it to hurt you, I want it to end

Oh, won’t you be naked for me?

Oh now:

Please don’t pass me by

Oh please, don’t pass me by

For I am blind, oh but you, you can see

Oh yes, I, I’ve been blinded oh, totally

Oh please, don’t pass me by

Well I sing this song for you Blonde Beasts

I sing this song for you Venuses upon your shells on the foam of the sea

And I sing 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 talk about at the coffee tables, at the meetings

And the demonstrations, on the streets, in your music, in my songs

I mean the real ones that are burning, I mean the real ones that are burning

I say

Please, don’t pass me by

Oh now, please don’t pass me by

For I am blind, yeah, but you, you can see

Oh now, I’ve been blinded oh totally

Oh no, please don’t pass me by

I know that you still think it’s me

I know that you think that there’s somebody else

I know that these words aren’t yours

But I tell you friends one day

You’re gonna get down on your knees

You’re gonna get down on your knees

You’re gonna get down on your knees

You’re gonna get down on your knees

You’re gonna get down on your knees

You’re gonna get down on your knees

You’re gonna get down on your knees

You’re gonna get down on your knees

You’re gonna get down …

Oh please, don’t pass me by

Oh please, don’t pass me by

For I am blind, yeah but you, you can see

Yes, I’ve been blinded oh, totally

Oh please, don’t pass me by

Well you know I have my song and I have my poem

I have my book and I have the army, and sometimes I have your applause

I make 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 with the maimed

Yes I’m with the torn, I’m with the down, I’m with the poor

Come on now …

Oh…

Ah, please don’t pass me by

Well I’ve got to go now friends

But, please don’t pass me by

For I am blind, yeah but you, you can see

Oh, I, I’ve been blinded, I’ve been blinded totally

Oh now, please don’t pass me by

Now I want to take away my dignity, yes take my dignity

My friends, take my dignity, take my form, take my style

Take my honour, take my courage, take my time, take my time, take my time

'Cause you know I’m with you singing this song

And I wish you would, I wish you would, I wish you would go home with someone

else

Yeah, wish you’d go home with someone else. I wish you’d go home with someone

else

Don’t be the person that you came with

Oh, don’t be the person that you came with

Oh, don’t be the person that you came with

Ah, I’m not going to be. I can’t stand him. I can’t stand who I am

That’s why I gotta get down on my knees

Because I can’t make it by myself

I’m not by myself anymore, because the man I was before, he was a tyrant

He was a slave

He was in chains

He was broken

And then he sang:

Oh please, don’t pass me by

Oh please, don’t pass me by

For I am, yes I am blind, oh but you can see

Yes, I’ve been blinded totally

Oh please, don’t pass me by

Well, I hope I see you out there on the corner

Yeah, I hope as I go by but I hear you whisper with the breeze

Because I’m going to leave you now, I’m gonna find me someone new

Find someone new

And please don’t pass me by