carnival

Ive walked these streets
A virtual stage
It seemed to me
Makeup on their faces
Actors took their places next to me
Ive walked these streets
In a carnival
Of sights to see
All the cheap thrill seekers,
The vendors, 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?

Ive 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
Ive 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? (blind)
Have I been lost? (lost)
Have I been wrong? (Have I been wrong? )
Have I been wise? (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
(Whoa, in that carnival)
Have I been blind? (blind)
Have I been lost? (lost)
(Have I been)
Have I been wrong? (Have I been wrong?)
Have I been wise? (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?