CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SON LYRICS MEANING TV

“surely heaven waits for you…” and lay down and rest a bit and don’t cry out to the people for the ignorant will not hear you. Lay your weary head to rest don’t you cry no more…” that is God’s word being spoken to him saying, Keep going down your path to me for there will be peace when you are done I.e. When he hears the voices say “Carry on my wayward son, they’ll be peace when you are done. He fights to show people this way he has found and it is very emotional and tough because everyone is so stuck to mainstream religions but he holds his course for winds of fortune i.e. 'I can hear the voices when I'm dreaming.', so he puts on a front and hides his path.

Then he states that they tell him what he sees is wrong and he is blind and what he knows is wrong and he is mad, but he can hear Gods true words i.e. “soaring ever higher but I flew too high…” he gets burned because he is going down a different path than the mainstream religions and they don’t like it i.e. The part where he says “once I rose above the noise and confusion just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion…” I feel that it means he rose above the noise and confusion of mainstream religions. For me it's overcoming ties with mainstream religion and finding the true path to God. It is strange becouse Elton John's song 'Island Girl' became popular and it was about girls coming over to the US and becoming prostitutes. 'There will be peace when you are done' was a statement that once the teen was finally rid of that lifestyle, his suffering would end, but until then, he would suffer the humiliations and abuse. Not being able to get out of the life style he chose to enter and becoming more defeated as time went on. 'The Wayward Son' being the boy who believed in the lies and his own denials, thinking the grass was greener on the other side and ending up selling his soul to servive and not becoming his own self or loosing control of his choices. The show mentioned that the singer of Kansas saw the things that were happening and going on in the street life and the song was about finding ones self and rising above the past failures. Many of the guys that were interviewed, stated that they never thought their life would come to this and how hard it was to get away from the life style, even dieing if they tried. Some were tricked into the life style, having no other alternative.

CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SON LYRICS MEANING TV

I watched a TV show in the 70's about teen boys living as runaways and forced to sell themselves in order to servive.

Carry on my wayward son lyrics meaning