Natalie Merchant Lyrics

Album: Live In Concert

Carnival Lyrics

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 & 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 & poverty

 In the diamond market

 The scarlet welcome carpet

 That they just rolled out for me 

 

 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 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

 Have I been lost

 Have I been wrong

 Have I been wise

 Have I been strong

 Have I been

 Hypnotized

 Mesmerized

 By what my eyes have found

 In that great street carnival

 In that carnival?