If you spend enough cash at the carnival games

You'll have a prize in your hand when you walk away

It'll slip through your fingers and you'll never know

What winning's really like at all

I stayed here too long, now it's in my soul

And when the thunder rolls, I've got nowhere to go

I keep going round on this carousel

Because it spins me so well.

And I'll stay with you just a little while

There's so much for us to see and do

But don't mistake this for an adventure in paradise

Just because the rides looks so good.

Carnival games are so much fun to play

Hard to just walk away from

When all you want are pretty things

But the price you pay is always too much

I'll never dry up these tears

Cried from all the years of playing carnival games.

To know which way to look, all the shining lights

Sign your name on the postcard of your life

And everyone will say that you came and conquered

Yeah, you won the whole race.

But don't mistake this for an adventure in paradise

Just because the ride looks so good.

Carnival games are so much fun to play

Hard to just walk away from

When all you want are pretty things

But the price you pay is always too much

I'll never dry up these tears

Cried from all the years of playing carnival games

Carnival games.

I wanna shed all of my skin

Feel my blood as it tastes the wind

I don't know where to begin.

Carnival games are so much fun to play

Hard to just walk away

When all you want are pretty, pretty things

You can't walk away once you play the game

You can't get back what you paid from all the years

Of playing carnival games, carnival games.

You'll never really know what

You'll never really know what winning's like

You'll never really know what

You'll never really know what winning's like

You'll never really know what

You'll never really know what winning's like

You'll never really know what

You'll never really know what winning's like.