There are three songs that seem to tie together. Let’s look into them:
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…
Hm. We are all just a little frenetic in our younger years, but things seem to mellow when we come to ourselves and buckle down. We even grin, a little:
Turning back the pages to the times I love best 
I wonder if she’ll ever do the same
Now the thing that I call living is just being satisfied
With knowing I got no one left to blame
Carefree highway, you seen better days
The morning after blues from my head down to my shoes
Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away on you
Daddy’s got a radio He said ‘Son I just know we’re gonna hear you
I Made it up to Music Row
Lordy don’t the wheels turn slow
But I wouldn’t Trade a minute
I wouldn’t have it any other way
Just show me to the Stage
I’m chasin’ the neon rainbow, Livin’ that honky-tonk dream
‘Cause all I’ve ever wanted Is to pick this guitar and sing
Just trying to be somebody Just wanna be heard and seen
Chasin’ that neon rainbow Livin’ that honky-tonk dream
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Carry On My Wayward Son:
Songwriter(s): Kerry Livgren
Copyright: Kirshner Don Music
Chasin’ That Neon Rainbow lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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