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"Carry On Wayward Son" is a song by American progressive rock band Kansas. It was featured in the Season Eleven episode, "Guitar Queer-O".

Background[]

Stan Marsh and Kyle Broflovski play the song on the Guitar Hero video game.

Randy Marsh attempts to impress them and their friends by playing the song on his electric guitar, but is mocked by the boys as being old. Later that night, Randy attempts to play the song on the Guitar Hero game, but fails miserably.

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, 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
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
The center lights around your vanity
But 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)

Trivia[]

  • This song is often considered the theme song of the TV series Supernatural, playing many different times in the show, particularly in the season finales.


Songs from Season Eleven
California Loves the Homeless | Carry On Wayward Son | Cherry Pie | Come to My Window | Down with the Sickness | Easter Parade | Every Rose Has Its Thorn | He is Risen | Help Me | Hippitus Hoppitus | (I've Got a) Golden Ticket | I Remember You | I Wanna Be Sedated | Imagination Song | John the Fisherman | Jordan | Pie Jesu (Requiem) | Pretty Vacant | Surrender | Woman

See also: List of Songs | List of Minor Characters from Season Eleven | Season Eleven

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