{"id":50831,"date":"2026-02-08T13:09:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=50831"},"modified":"2026-02-08T13:09:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T13:09:04","slug":"carry-on-wayward-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/02\/08\/carry-on-wayward-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Carry On Wayward Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas Cover<br \/>\nWritten by Kerry Livgren<br \/>\nMade famous by Kansas<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nCarry on, my wayward son<br \/>\nThere&#8217;ll be peace when you are done<br \/>\nLay your weary head to rest<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t you cry no more<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental Break]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nOnce I rose above the noise and confusion<br \/>\nJust to get a glimpse beyond this illusion<br \/>\nI was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high<br \/>\nThough my eyes could see, I still was a blind man<br \/>\nThough my mind could think, I still was a madman<br \/>\nI hear the voices when I&#8217;m dreaming<br \/>\nI can hear them say<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nCarry on, my wayward son<br \/>\nThere&#8217;ll be peace when you are done<br \/>\nLay your weary head to rest<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t you cry no more<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nMasquerading as a man with a reason<br \/>\nMy charade is the event of the season<br \/>\nAnd if I claim to be a wise man, well<br \/>\nIt surely means that I don&#8217;t know<br \/>\nOn a stormy sea of moving emotion<br \/>\nTossed about, I&#8217;m like a ship on the ocean<br \/>\nI set a course for winds of fortune<br \/>\nBut I hear the voices say<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nCarry on, my wayward son<br \/>\nThere&#8217;ll be peace when you are done<br \/>\nLay your weary head to rest<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t you cry no more (No)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\n(Carry on) You will always remember<br \/>\n(Carry on) Nothing equals the splendor<br \/>\nNow your life&#8217;s no longer empty<br \/>\nSurely Heaven waits for you<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nCarry on, my wayward son<br \/>\nThere&#8217;ll be peace when you are done<br \/>\nLay your weary head to rest<br \/>\n(Don&#8217;t you cry) Don&#8217;t you cry no more<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nNo more<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Wayward\/\">Wayward<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas Cover Written by Kerry Livgren Made famous by Kansas [Intro] Carry on, my wayward son There&#8217;ll be peace when you are done Lay your weary head to rest Don&#8217;t you cry no more [Instrumental Break] [Verse 1] Once I rose above the noise and confusion Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1478,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coversongs","category-the-beatless-sense-mongers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50868,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50831\/revisions\/50868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}