And the powerful spirit of a poor young girl being abandoned to her future with only a red dress and her wits to keep her alive. Takes me to the deep South and the poverty of some who lived thru truly hard times. This song captivates me still, after 50+ years. But it is a completely different song than the other one that sounds slapped together in a few takes without a thought for the meaning. The only reason it was remade was to scoop up a boatload of money from a more modern and accepting audience. Just listening for the 784,654th time.and it's just perfect in every way.
It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life. 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 Despite the fact that he was lost, and felt like he was on a the wayward son on a "stormy sea of moving illusion", he heard the voices telling him to "Carry on wayward, son, there'll be peace when you are done!" and "Don't you cry no more!" Towards the ending it says, "Now your life is no longer empty, surely Heaven waits for you?", showing that now he had found the correct religion, his life finally has meaning and that Heaven now waits for him.Once I rose above the noise and confusion He was lost, and hadn't a clue about which one to join. The noise and confusion is the babbling of many religions claiming to be the correct one. The writer of Carry on Wayward Son admitted that the song was about him spiritually searching for the "Correct Religion". Whereas "Carry on Wayward Son" is the first song for "Leftoverture", and begins with "Once I rose above the noise and confusion.". The last verse of the last song in Masque, "The Pinnacle", ends with "I stood where no man goes, above the din (noise) I rose.". The album preceding "Leftoverture" was "Masque".
This song was written for Kansas' album "Leftoverture". Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion Once I rose above the noise and confusion
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