Carnival

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

And 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 wrong Have I been wise

To shut my eyes and play along

Hypnotized mesmerized

By what my eyes have found

By what my eyes have seen

By what they have seen

Have I been wise Have I been weak

Have I been strong Oh have I been strong

If I've been hypnotized and mesmerized

By what my eyes have found

In that that great street carnival in that carnival