My Name Is Carnival

[Verse 1]

I've seen your face

In every place that I'll be goin'

I read your words

Like black hungry birds read every sowin’

Rise and fall, spin and call

And my name is Carnival

[Verse 2]

Sad music in the night

Sings a scream of light out of chorus

And voices you might hear

Appear and disappear in the forest

Short and tall, throw the ball

And my name is Carnival

[Verse 3]

Strings of yellow tears

Drip from black-wired fears in the meadow

And their white halos spin

With an anger that is thin and turns to sorrow

King of all, hear me call

Hear my name: Carnival

[Verse 4]

Here there is no law

But the arcade's penny claw hanging empty

The painted laughing smile

And the turning of the stile do not envy

And the small can steal the ball

To touch the face of Carnival

[Verse 5]

The fat woman frowns

At screaming frightened clowns that move enchanted

And the shadow lion waits

Outside your iron gates with one wish granted

Colors fall, throw the ball

Play the game of Carnival

[Verse 6]

Without a thought of size

You come to hypnotize the danger

The world that comes apart

Has no single heart when life is stranger

Wheel and call, clawed dreams all

In the name of Carnival

[Refrain]

Wheel and call, clawed dreams all

In my name of Carnival