Kansas – Carry On Wayward Son (live) lyrics

Kansas – Carry On Wayward Son (live) lyrics

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher
But I flew too high

Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man
Though my mind could think I still was a mad man
I hear the voices when I'm dreaming
I can hear them say

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

Masquerading as a man with a reason
My charade is the event of the season
And if I claim to be a wise man
It surely means that I don't know

On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about I'm like ship in the ocean
I set a course for winds of fortune
But I hear the voices say

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more

No!

Carry on
You will always remember

Carry on
Nothing equals the splendor

Now your life's not empty
Surely Heaven waits for you

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry...
Don't you cry no more

No more...

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Edwyn Sassidy 2015-05-25 00:34:43

This song was written for Kansas' album "Leftoverture". The album preceding "Leftoverture" was "Masque". The last verse of the last song in Masque, "The Pinnacle", ends with "I stood where no man goes, above the din (noise) I rose...". Whereas "Carry on Wayward Son" is the first song for "Leftoverture", and begins with "Once I rose above the noise and confusion...". So, both albums show a story. The writer of Carry on Wayward Son admitted that the song was about him spiritually searching for the "Correct Religion". The noise and confusion is the babbling of many religions claiming to be the correct one. He was lost, and hadn't a clue about which one to join. Despite the fact that he was lost, and felt like he was on a the wayward son on a "stormy sea of moving illusion", he heard the voices telling him to "Carry on wayward, son, there'll be peace when you are done!" and "Don't you cry no more!" Towards the ending it says, "Now your life is no longer empty, surely Heaven waits for you?", showing that now he had found the correct religion, his life finally has meaning and that Heaven now waits for him.

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