The Faded Carnival

I wanted to be there
Part of it all
The strangest irony
Is that I was

Watching the faded carnival
The stumbling star
Full of strong drink
And God knows what else

It was a strange marketplace
With everyone for sale
You paid your price
And I paid mine

Now it all seems like a lost dream
Like it never took place
The pain an illusion
Death an inconvenience

Youth dies
We search for other things
All are ephemeral
Life moving on as it drifts away

Fragments remain
In the end
Memories
Of a soul