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I've walked these streets |
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A virtual stage |
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It seemed to me |
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Make up on their faces |
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Actors took their |
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Places next to me |
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I've walked these streets |
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In a carnival |
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Of sights to see |
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All the cheap thrill seekers |
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The vendors and the dealers |
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They crowded around me |
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Have I been blind |
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Have I been lost |
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Inside my self and |
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My own mind |
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Hypnotized |
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Mesmerized |
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By what my eyes have seen? |
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I've walked these streets |
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In a spectacle of wealth and poverty |
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In the diamond markets |
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The scarlet welcome carpet |
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That they just rolled out for me |
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[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/n/natalie_merchant/carnival.html ] |
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I've walked these streets |
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In the mad house asylum |
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They can be |
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Where a wild eyed misfit prophet |
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On a traffic island stopped |
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And he raved of saving me |
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Have I been blind |
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Have I been lost |
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Inside my self and |
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My own mind |
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Hypnotized |
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Mesmerized |
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By what my eyes have seen? |
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Have I been wrong |
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Have I been wise |
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To shut my eyes |
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And play along |
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Hypnotized |
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Paralyzed |
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By what my eyes have found |
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By what my eyes have seen |
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What they have seen? |
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Have I been blind |
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Have I been lost |
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Inside my self and |
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My own mind |
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Hypnotized |
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Mesmerized |
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By what my eyes have found |
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In that great street carnival |
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In that carnival? |
