“The Carnival Is Over” is a Russian folk song from circa 1883. It was adapted with English-language lyrics, by Tom Springfield, for the Australian folk pop group the Seekers in 1965. The song became the Seekers’ signature recording, and the band has customarily closed their concerts with it ever since its success in late-1965.
Say goodbye my own true lover
As we sing a lovers song
How it breaks my heart to leave you
Now the carnival is gone
High above the dawn is waiting
And my tears are falling rain
For the carnival is over
We may never meet again
Like a drum my heart was beating
And your kiss was sweet as wine
But the joys of love are fleeting
For Pierrot and Columbine
We were young and couldn’t wait to go to the annual fair that came to Presque Isle every year. The definition of carnival is a traveling enterprise offering amusements. That’s what it was. There were rigged games to win teddy bears that no one ever won. There were shows that no one should ever see. There were rides with vomit encrusted on the safety bars. There was food too expensive for us to eat. The whole thing was designed to take the money from your pocket and place it in their coffers while making you believe you were having a good time. It was a very brief time of pleasure that left you feeling like a fool.
The song I mentioned describes such an experience. It could be a marriage, a business endeavor, one of multiple pleasures that humans take a shot at that leaves them empty.
God offers man an experience that is real and lasting, and when life is done for you, there will be no regrets that you took the journey.
2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed;
Give it some thought.
Gary