Carnival Lyrics by Natalie Merchant

Carnival Lyrics

    I've walked these streets
    A virtual stage
    It seemed to me
    Make up on their faces
    Actors took their
    Places next to me

    I've walked these streets
    In a carnival
    Of sights to see
    All the cheap thrill seekers
    The vendors and the dealers
    They crowded around me

    Have i been blind
    Have i been lost
    Inside my self and
    My own mind
    Hypnotized
    Mesmerized
    By what my eyes have seen?

    I've walked these streets
    In a spectacle of wealth and poverty
    In the diamond markets
    The scarlet welcome carpet
    That they just rolled out for me

    I've walked these streets
    In the mad house asylum
    They can be
    Where a wild eyed misfit prophet
    On a traffic island stopped
    And he raved of saving me

    Have i been blind
    Have i been lost
    Inside my self and
    My own mind
    Hypnotized
    Mesmerized
    By what my eyes have seen?

    Have i been wrong
    Have i been wise
    To shut my eyes
    And play along
    Hypnotized
    Paralyzed
    By what my eyes have found
    By what my eyes have seen
    What they have seen?

    Have i been blind
    Have i been lost
    Inside my self and
    My own mind
    Hypnotized
    Mesmerized
    By what my eyes have found
    In that great street carnival
    In that carnival?

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