Carnival Songtext
von Bert Jansch

I see your face in every place
Out we go
I read your words like black hungry birds
Read every soul
Spinning coal
Throw the ball
My name is a carnival
Sad music in the night
Seems a stream of light
Out of chorus
Voices you might hear
Appear and disappear
In the forest
Short and tall
Come throw the ball
My name is a carnival
Stings of yellow tears
Drip from black wire fears
In the meadow
And white hail I spin


With an anger that is thin
And turns to saffron
King of all
Hear my call
Is a carnival
Here there is no law
But the arcade′s penny claw
Hanging empty
The painted laughing smile
The turning of the stile
Do not envy
Where the small
Can steal the ball
Touch the face
Of a carnival
The fat lady frowns
To screaming frightened clowns
That stand and chant there
And the shadow lie in wait
Outside your iron gates
With one wish grant them
Colors all
Come throw the ball
My name is a carnival
Without a thought or sigh
You come to hypnotize
The danger
In a world that comes apart
There is no single heart
And life is stranger
Wheel and call
Proud dreams all in the name
Of a carnival
Yeah, wheel and call
Spinning coal
My name, oh it's carnival