Carnival
Natalie Merchant
Album: Tigerlily


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)