I’ve seen your face in every place that I’ll be goin’   I read your words like black hungry birds read every song   Rise and fall   Spin and call   And my name   Is carnival   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   Strings of yellow tears   Drip from black wire 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   Here there is no law   But the arcade’s penny claw    Hanging empty   The painted laughing smile   And the turning of the style   Do not envy   And the small    Can steal the ball   To touch the face   Of carnival   The fat woman frowns    At screaming frightened clowns    That move enchanted   And a shadow lie and waits   Outside your iron gates   With one wish granted   Colours fall   Throw the ball   Play the game    Of carnival   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   Wheel and call   Clawed dreams all   In the name   Of carnival