Intro

Verse

Well, I’ve walked these streets, a virtual stage it seemed to me

Make-up 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, the vendors and the dealers, they crowded around me

Verse

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

Instrumental

Chorus 2/Outro

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 car- ni -val…