Refrain
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


{Refrain


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


{Refrain
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)