Carnival Lyrics - Live In Concert - Natalie Merchant

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 

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 

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 

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