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 market
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?