Tim Buckley - Carnival Song Lyrics
The singer cries for people's lies
He will sing for the day to bring him night
The circus burns in carnival flame
And for a while you won't know my name at all
But sing and dance and love for pennies and gold
The juggling clown smiles to me
And every frown we agree is glad
The nighttime comes to bring the bums
From Bowery heat to crimson streets of wine
But magic lands will never touch our sands
Your children smile in single file
They learn mistakes that others make
They see although they cannot know
The needs they'll need to have their greed grow wild
And for a while you won't know my name
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Tim Buckley Carnival Song Comments
Hi! Does anyone know who is the painter?
Dude spotify recently suggested this to me in a kate Bush playlist, I thought his music was of recent times never thought it came out in 1969, RIP man
this song make me realize that Buckley is the american Syd Barret
With THIS song, I can smell hot buttered popcorn in one nostril and cotton candy out the other.
Harlequin Carnival song c:
If we release a Joker movie in ten years time with this as the motif, Joaquin Phoenix will be forgotten in a flash. Muahahahahah!
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I love how the people who have "discovered" Tim Buckley adore him unusually more than a regular artists. Exactly the ingredient to be a good musician: quality artwork, with no marketing or promotion.
Am I the only one who finds the tambourine in this song so awsome?
"But magic land will never touch our sands"
Woooooow
tim buckley....one of my greatest "finds" of the 60's. i love this album the best. brings back such excellent memories. RIP tim.
Perfect feelings for today.
I don't think it's bad this has such low views, because not everyone cand comprehend such feelings, and therefore, it would be misunterstood
Pure creative, innovative genius.
This tune in particular and the rest of the album was the soundtrack behind a few trips for me back when... Something quite other-worldly about Tim Buckley's music. I expect to hear it again in the afterlife.
so beautyful !