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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 places next to me |
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I've walked these streets 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? Have I been lost |
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Inside my self and my own mind |
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Hypnotized, 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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And I've walked these streets |
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In the mad house asylum 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? Have I been lost |
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Inside my self and my own mind |
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Hypnotized, mesmerized |
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By what my eyes have seen? |
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Have I been wrong? Have I been wise |
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To shut my eyes and play along |
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Hypnotized and paralyzed by what my eyes have found |
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By what my eyes have seen, by what they have seen? |
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Have I been blind? Have I been lost? |
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Oh have I been lost? |
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Have I been wise? Have I been weak? |
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Have I been strong? Oh have I been strong? |
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Hypnotized and mesmerized |
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By what my eyes have found |
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By what my eyes have found |
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In that, that great street carnival |
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[Incomprehensible] have I been blind? Have I been lost? |
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Oh have I been lost? |
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Have I been wise? Have I been weak? |
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Have I been strong? Oh have I been strong? |
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If I've been hypnotized and mesmerized |
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By what my eyes have found |
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By what my eyes have found |
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In that, that great street carnival, in that carnival |
