Carry On Wayward Son

So I absolutely love this song! My father is a huge Kansas fan so it was always played in my home. This is me.

So enough with Supernatural let’s get back to the song.

Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas

So this song has been around long before Supernatural although I’m sure that is what most people now associate it with.

So my parents grew up in the ’70s and were big music fans, in fact my mom was a disco queen. Anyway, I got a lot of info on this song from my dad, as since he was around then he knew all the skinny on what was happeming in the music scene.

So when Kerry Livgren was writing Carry On Wayward Son,  not only was he and the group under pressure from the studio but he was struggling with his own spirituality and religion. He felt there had to be something more, but didn’t know what. In 1979, Livgren became interested in The Urantia Book, a series of papers that claim to be a series of revelations written by supernatural beings. He later rejected the teachings, and once again found himself at a loss. Kansas went on tour with another band, Louisiana’s Le Roux, and he and one of the members, Jeff Pollard, would debate over what was the truth. Urantia or the Bible. Livgren ultimately was convinced by Pollard and became a Christian.

Livgreen wrote the piano, guitar, and the amazing lyrics. I just love this song as it just captures so much emotion of hope, despair, confusion, etc.

Now doesn’t that make its connection to Supernatural even better? I mean the whole theme of Supernatural is about these two brothers trying to figure out the what God, angels, demons, etc. all means. Trying to figure out their place in the world.

They actually weren’t going to use the song as a theme it just sort of happened. And its perfect as Dean and Sam Winchesters are from Kansas.

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

Ah

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,

No more!

Now I really want to watch Supernatural

 

For more of my favorite songs, go to I’ll Be Alright Without You by Journey

For more on Dean Winchester, go to Eye of the Tiger

For more on Castiel, go to Happy B-day

For more on Sam Winchester, go to Cinderelly, Cinderelly

For more on The Wizard of Oz, go to When Horror Doesn’t Stay On the Screen

They’re Here: Poltergeist (1982)

They’re Here!

So I’ve only ever seen one part of the film Poltergeist. When I was younger I tried to watch the first one, but my mother wouldn’t let me see it as she said it was too scary for me. Since then I have tried again and again to watch it, but each time I get interrupted and have only seen parts, and all out of order. Maybe one day I’ll actually see it the right way from start to finish.

Oh well…

The part I remember the most and is stuck in my mind is the scene with the little girl when the TV is going all crazy. That scene is pretty creepy. How calm the girl is, is just freeeeeaaaaaaky.

So I have been thinking about this film a lot as recently our TV has been acting really strange, and every time it starts flipping on and off, it makes me think of that scene.

The other day I turned off the TV and walked five steps away, when I could hear this talking noise, I turned around and the TV had turned itself back on. I thought it was really creepy, but just shrugged it off. I turned the TV off and watched it making sure it was off.

A few days later I was watching TV, but had to go and do something else so I picked up the remote and turned it off. My roommate came out of our room and started to say something to me, when the TV turned itself back on, and my cellphone started going off at the same time. Immediately my friend and I looked at each other

 “Poltergeist!”

It was really strange, but we both laughed it off, and once again I didn’t think much of it.

A few days ago I decided I would stop using the remote and turn it off by hand, pressing the power button, to completely turn it off. I knew that there would be no way that it wouldn’t work this time.

I went and turned the TV off by hand and smugly walked back to me room. I knew I could outsmart it. I was almost in my room when I heard voices, again.

Creepy…

I turn around and the TV turned itself on. I went and turned it off again, stepped back from it and it turned itself on AGAIN!

I don’t really believe in poltergeists, but I don’t know what’s going on with our TV. It is acting pretty freaky.

Happy Terror Tuesday from our evil TV! More terror to come!

Here is a poster I made for my facebook cover page for my Halloween countdown

To go to the beginning of Horrorfest, go to I Don’t Belong in the World