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 and the dealers
 They crowded around me 
 
 Have I been blind
 Have I been lost
 Inside my self and
 My own mind
 Hypnotized
 Mesmerized
 By what my eyes have seen? 
 
 I've walked these streets
 In a spectacle of wealth and poverty
 In the diamond markets
 The scarlet welcome carpet
 That they just rolled out for me 
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 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 my self 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
 Inside my self and
 My own mind
 Hypnotized
 Mesmerized
 By what my eyes have found
 In that great street carnival
 In that carnival?