Carnival Games Lyrics - Nelly Furtado

If you spend enough cash at the carnival games 

You'll have a prize in your hand when you walk away 

Let it slip through your fingers and you'll never know 

What winning's really like, oh 

I stayed there too long, now it's in my soul 

And when the thunder rolls, I got nowhere to go 

I keep going round on this carousel 

Because it spins me so well 

And I'll stay with you just a little while 

There's so much for us to see and do 

But don't mistake this for an adventure in paradise 

Just because the rides look so good 

Carnival games are so much fun to play, hard to just walk away from 

And all you want, a pretty thing but the price you pay is 

Always too much, you'll never dry up these tears 

Crying from all the years playing carnival games 

Do you know which way to look, all the shining lights 

And your name on the postcard of your life 

And everyone will say that you came to conquer 

Yeah, you won the whole race 

But don't mistake this for an adventure in paradise 

Just because the rides look so good 

Carnival games are so much fun to play, hard to just walk away from 

And all you want, a pretty thing but the price you pay is 

Always too much, you'll never dry up these tears 

Crying from all the years playing carnival games 

Carnival games 

I wanna shed all of my skin, feel my blood as it takes the wind 

I don't know where to begin 

Carnival games are so much fun to play, hard to just walk away 

When all you want are pretty, pretty things 

You can't walk away once you play the game 

You can't get back what you paid from all the years 

Of playing carnival games, carnival games 

You'll never really know what 

You'll never really know what winning's like 

You'll never really know what 

You'll never really know what winning's like 

You'll never really know what 

You'll never really know what winning's like 

You'll never really know what 

You'll never really know what winning's like