Carnival

I've walked these streets

A virtual stage

It seemed to me

Makeup 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, 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?

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

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? (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?