Carnivalnatalie merchantalbum: tigerlilywell, i've walked these streets a virtual stage, it seemed to memakeup on their facesactors took their places next to mewell, i've walked these streets in a carnival, of sights to see all the cheap thrill seekers vendors and the dealersthey crowded around me1-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 povertyin the diamond markets the scarlet welcome carpetthat they just rolled out for meand i've walked these streets in the madhouse asylum they can be where a wild-eyed misfit propheton a traffic island stopped and he raved of saving me(rpt 1)have i been blind, have i been lost have i been blind, have i been meanhave i been stronghypnotized, mesmerized by what my eyes have seenin that great street carnival, in that carnival?source: cc from letterman's the late show (july 25)