Carnival

Well I've walked these streets

A virtual stage

It seemed to me

Makeup on their faces

Actors took their places next to me

Well I've walked these streets

In a carnival

Of sights to see

All the cheap thrill-seekers

Vendors and the dealers

They crowded around me

Have I been blind?

Have I been lost?

Inside myself and my own mind?

Hypnotized, mesmerized

By what my eyes have seen

Well I've walked these streets

In a spectacle of wealth and poverty

In the diamond market

The scarlet welcome carpet

That they just rolled out for me

And I've walked these streets

In the madhouse 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 myself 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?

Have I been wrong?

Have I been wise?

Have I been strong?

Have I been hypnotized, mesmerized

By what my eyes have found?

By what my eyes have found?

In that great street carnival

Have I been blind?

Have I been lost?

(Have I been) Have I been wrong?

Have I been wise?

Have I been strong?

Have I been hypnotized, mesmerized

By what my eyes have found? (By what my eyes have found?)

In that great street carnival

In that carnival