If you spend enough cash at the carnival games

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

Let it slip through your fingers and you'll never know

What winning's really like, oh

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

And when the thunder rolls, I 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 look so good



Carnival games are so much fun to play, hard to just walk away from

And all you want, a pretty thing but the price you pay is

Always too much, you'll never dry up these tears

Crying from all the years playing carnival games



Didn't know which way to look, all the shining lights

And your name on the postcard of your life

And everyone will say that you came to conquer

Yeah, you won the whole race



But don't mistake this for an adventure in paradise

Just because the rides look so good



Carnival games are so much fun to play, hard to just walk away from

And all you want, a pretty thing but the price you pay is

Always too much, you'll never dry up these tears

Crying from all the years playing carnival games

Carnival games



I wanna shed all of my skin, feel my blood as it takes the wind

I don't know where to begin



Carnival games are so much fun to play, hard to just walk away from

And 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