Karaoké Carnival 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 market 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 big 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 big street carnival

In that carnival