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Artist: Kansas
Suggested Track: Carry on Wayward Son

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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
Now your life's no longer empty
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

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Kansas
Kansas is an American rock band that became popular in the 1970s initially on album-oriented rock charts and later with hit singles such as “Carry On Wayward Son” and “Dust in the
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Kansas Lyrics
Kansas lyrics - 148 song lyrics sorted by album, including "Dust In The Wind", "Carry On Wayward Son", "Lonely Street".
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Monolith by Kansas
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Blame Kansas by T.F
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Masque by Kansas
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The Best of Kansas by Kansas
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Point of Know Return by Kansas
Point of Know Return is an album released in 1977 by the progressive rock band Kansas. It contains their best-known single, Dust in the Wind, and is one of their most popular
Leftoverture by Kansas
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Kansas by Kansas
Kansas is the eponymous debut album of the American rock band, Kansas. The album was released in March 1974, when the album was recorded in September 1973, at Record Plant Studios
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The National – Not in Kansas
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Ashe – Kansas
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Gorillaz – Kansas
Concurrent with one other track, One Percent – Kansas debuted live on the 22nd of June, 2018 at the Zepp DiverCity venue in Tokyo. It was released along with 10 more tracks on
Gucci Mane (Ft. Jim Jones) – Kansas
[Verse 1: Gucci Mane] / Shawty cooler than fan, but her man not me / Got a real hot mouth, she a stone cold freak / 10 girls in my suite, brought sand to the beach / Got a nigga
Kansas – Dust in the Wind
Kansas’s acoustic hit “Dust In The Wind” is a reflective song about the inevitability of mortality and the insignificant role every person plays in the bigger picture. It was
Whitney – Kansas
[Verse 1] / Winter sky turned over in Kansas / Though I didn't notice / The streetlights towered over / Lonely faces drifted out of focus / [Pre-Chorus] / Tunnel vision suddenly
Microwave – Kansas
That voice told my heart to turn around / My heart, my heart wouldn’t shake / But that voice was so damn persistent / So I disconnected the brakes / And I pushed, I pushed that
49 Winchester – Hays, Kansas
[Verse 1] / Well I wanna do good, I'm sick of doin' bad / I wanna have all the things that you've had / Honey like an inability to feel the way that I do / Well I wanna get out of
Fred Eaglesmith – Kansas
It's always Kansas / That's where I always break down / That's where my world / Tumbles to the ground / It's always Kansas / That's where I fall apart / That's where my broken
Ezra Furman – 40 Days in Kansas
An extra track from the first solo album, The Year of No Returning. The song is comparatively slow paced and solemn, with a ponderous, sonorous quality.
Chavo – Kansas
[Chorus] / I told 'em keep the candids / I keep her heels clickin' like she from Kansas / Tell me where the bands is (where) / Then stack it up and save it like advantage / Free my
The Devil Wears Prada – Kansas
“Kansas” is the seventh track on The Devil Wears Prada’s fourth album, Dead Throne. The 3 and a half minute instrumental starts with slow guitar work and gradually gets heavier
Kansas – Paradox
[Instrumental Intro: 0:00 - 0:52] / [Verse 1] / I'm on fire / Burning with the question in my mind / Strange desire / Seems there's nothin' else for me to find / [Chorus 1] / '
The Get Up Kids – Campfire Kansas
[Verse 1] / Woke up at eight, started the fire / Had a few drinks, we all felt inspired / Jumped in the stream, our shoes and canteens / The water was bitter cold / Laid in the
William Beckmann – Leaving Kansas
[Verse 1] / Well, I left Kansas for Tennessee / Day my past started catchin' up with me / I spent a little time down in Texas, too / But I can't go back without thinkin' 'bout you
The Wedding Present – Kansas
If none of this was ever planned / That explains why I don't understand / Come on, you must agree that this is strange / Well how can everything just change? / And now, I know that
Tullycraft – Our Days In Kansas
Did you mean what you said when you told me you missed us / Without reservation, without plans for Christmas / First part was right, the rest wasn't true / The same goes for me and
Vienna Teng – Kansas
Sun sets in an ocean of brown farmland haze / Power lines draped across roads you could drive on for days / Well it's all too perfect / Time to look back at us now / Endless and
Talos – Kansas
[Verse 1] / Called to the feast I'll bring the bones / Stay with the skies and I'll go / A lung in the sea, a heart in the snow / Who leaves when the carnage is cold? / [Verse 2
T.F – Blame Kansas
Intro: / Uh / Verse 1: / Blame Kansas, Ima bring it from the top lets go / Classic, like the frog splash off top ropes. (Uhh) / The killer I need a statue bitch I'm one of the
Kansas – Icarus II
In the darkness I rise, long before / The dawn / I was dreaming of home and the life I / Led / But now I hear the sound of the engines / Roar / And I crave the embrace of my
The Mountain Goats – Going to Kansas
[Intro: spoken sample] / ... tell me! / Don't hurt them! Do something! / It's all over, it's all over, I've been betrayed. Send David to me, I don't feel well / [Verse 1] / You
Kansas – Carry On Wayward Son
This song is often seen as a reference to the Prodigal Son parable in the New Testament of the Bible. But the song’s writer, Kerry Livgren, denies it has any specific religious
Steve Walsh – Kansas
[Intro] / Ooh ooh ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh ooh / Oh, ooh ooh, oh, ooh ooh / Ooh, ooh-ooh / [Verse 1] / Ghost man, pony boy, midnight ride / Where people of the south wind lived and
Orville Peck – Kansas (Remembers Me Now)
The song is about the Clutter family murders committed by Perry Smith and Dick Hickock in Holcomb, Kansas in 1959. The murders were the subject of Truman Capote’s landmark true
Kansas – Icarus - Borne on Wings of Steel
Early in the morning sunlight / Soaring on the wings of dawn / Here I'll live and die with my wings in the sky / And I won't come down no more / Higher than the birds I'm flying
Kansas – Song for America
This song was written about how beautiful America was before it was ruined by modern civilization.
Kansas – Point of Know Return
This is the title song for Kansas' Point of Know Return album.
Roy Blair – Kansas
[Intro] / Damn I'm burning up / Everything I touch / Can't let you get ahead / Throw acid on my skin / I'll fumigate your web / Damn, I'm burning up / Everything I touch / Can't
Megan Moroney – Kansas Anymore
[Verse 1] / Kansas was you and me, happy ever after / Our love was goin' on like a wheat field goes forever / Kansas was golden roads in your arms, it felt like home / Kansas was
Kansas – Miracles Out of Nowhere
The fourth track on Leftoverture by Kansas, “Miracles Out of Nowhere” is the third song on that album about the search for something to believe in. It could be argued that
Gang of Youths – Kansas
[Verse 1] / Some of us think seldom in the night / Of goddamn horses and goddamn wires / It's in one ear and never sees the other side / Unsteadiness belies your tender years
Priests – The Seduction of Kansas
[Verse 1] / Bloodthirsty cherub choir, from the cornfields you sing to me / All to the farmhouse born, majestic Kansan progeny / Senator, news anchor, Superman, and Dorothy / All
Corey Taylor – Kansas
[Verse 1] / Down and out in parts unknown / Still alive but still alone / Only twelve more days until I'm done / Thinkin' 'bout the way you feel / God, it's been so long, it seems
SynlakrosS – Bleeding Kansas
The breeze still blowing my mind / In a place that is close to heaven / Time stops and back to shine / Glorifying our lives (see the sun, hold my hand) / But it's over, things of
Neil Young – Kansas
[Verse 1] / I feel like I just woke up from a bad dream / And it's so good to have you sleepin' by my side / [Chorus] / Although I'm not so sure / If I even know your name / Hold
Cat Stevens – The Devil Came from Kansas
Oh, the devil came from Kansas. Where he went to I can't say / Though I teach I'm not a preacher, and I aim to stay that way / There's a monkey riding on my back - been there for
Kansas – Lonely Street
Sometimes when I'm walking down this lonely street / Well, it sure don't seem like twenty years / Since I went walking down this lonely street / And the smell of perfumed ladies
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