"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 wayward son lyrics meaning tv#
It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.I watched a TV show in the 70's about teen boys living as runaways and forced to sell themselves in order to servive. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. But there is seemingly no way out but death. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"-being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. I set a course for winds of fortune, but I hear the voices say
Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean I hear the voices when I'm dreamin', I can hear them sayĪnd if I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know Though my mind could think I still was a mad man Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man I was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high Just to get a glimpse beyond the illusion Once I rose above the noise and confusion
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