"Life Is A Carnival" as written by Robbie Robertson, Mark Levon Helm and Rick Danko....
You can walk on the water
Drown in the sand
You can fly off a mountaintop
If anybody can
Run away, run away (run away, run away)
It's the restless age
Look away, look away (look away, look away)
You can turn the page
Hey, buddy, would you like to buy a watch real cheap?
Here on the street
I got six on each arm
And two more 'round my feet
Life is a carnival
Believe it or not
Life is a carnival
Two bits a shot
Saw a man with a jinx
In the third degree
From trying to deal with people
People, you can't see
Take away, take away (take away, take away)
This house of mirrors
Give away, give away (give away, give away)
All the souvenirs
We're all in the same boat ready to float
Off the edge of the world
The flat old world
The street is a sideshow
From the peddler to the corner girl
Life is a carnival
It's in the book
Life is a carnival
Take another look
Hey, buddy, would you like to buy a watch real cheap?
Here on the street
I got six on each arm
And two more 'round my feet
Life is a carnival
Believe it or not
Life is a carnival
Two bits a shot
Life is a carnival
Life is a carnival
Life is a carnival
Drown in the sand
You can fly off a mountaintop
If anybody can
Run away, run away (run away, run away)
It's the restless age
Look away, look away (look away, look away)
You can turn the page
Hey, buddy, would you like to buy a watch real cheap?
Here on the street
I got six on each arm
And two more 'round my feet
Life is a carnival
Believe it or not
Life is a carnival
Two bits a shot
Saw a man with a jinx
In the third degree
From trying to deal with people
People, you can't see
Take away, take away (take away, take away)
This house of mirrors
Give away, give away (give away, give away)
All the souvenirs
We're all in the same boat ready to float
Off the edge of the world
The flat old world
The street is a sideshow
From the peddler to the corner girl
Life is a carnival
It's in the book
Life is a carnival
Take another look
Hey, buddy, would you like to buy a watch real cheap?
Here on the street
I got six on each arm
And two more 'round my feet
Life is a carnival
Believe it or not
Life is a carnival
Two bits a shot
Life is a carnival
Life is a carnival
Life is a carnival
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J. Krishnamurti said "the world is a circus."
And my own Gurumayi tells a tale of a palace of mirrors. The
story is the Thousand Mirrors, I believe.
So, the band is really with it with this tune. They have studied
the deeper side of life.