Natalie Merchant Carnival
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 markets 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?
