gendoikari
5th August 2011, 20:22
I was listening to "carry on my wayward son" this afternoon and realized, it could be intepreted as a very revolutionary song. Disguised by very much so.
Carry on my wayward son
They'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
They'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, well
It surely means that I don't know
On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean
I set a course for winds of fortune
But I hear the voices say
Carry on my wayward son
They'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 no longer empty
Surely heaven waits for you
Carry on my wayward son
They'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest,
Don't you cry, Don't you cry no more
what do you guys interpret this as? what other songs in conteporary culture hide or blatantly state revolutionary themes?
To me the song sounds very much like many of us, particularily before we learn of socialism. Trapped in a system as captives, knowing something is wrong, not quite knowing what. A voice telling us somethings wrong, trying to figure out what that is... to change it.
Carry on my wayward son
They'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
They'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, well
It surely means that I don't know
On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean
I set a course for winds of fortune
But I hear the voices say
Carry on my wayward son
They'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 no longer empty
Surely heaven waits for you
Carry on my wayward son
They'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest,
Don't you cry, Don't you cry no more
what do you guys interpret this as? what other songs in conteporary culture hide or blatantly state revolutionary themes?
To me the song sounds very much like many of us, particularily before we learn of socialism. Trapped in a system as captives, knowing something is wrong, not quite knowing what. A voice telling us somethings wrong, trying to figure out what that is... to change it.