Lyrics Carnival - Natalie Merchant

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 1-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 markets 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
(rpt 1)
Have I been blind, have I been lost
Have I been blind, have I been mean
Have I been strong
Hypnotized, mesmerized by what my eyes have seen
In that great street carnival, in that carnival?
Source: CC from LETTERMAN’s THE LATE SHOW (July 25)