This Trombone Quartet’s “Carry On Wayward Son” Will Give You Chills

The Maniacal 4

Performing Kansas’s unforgettable hit “Carry On Wayward Son,” is YouTube sensation Maniacal 4, delivering a stunning rendition of the classic that we guarantee you haven’t heard before!

Interesting Quote: “I felt a profound urge to ‘Carry On’ and continue the search. I saw myself as the ‘Wayward Son,’ alienated from the ultimate reality, and yet striving to know it or him. The positive note at the end (‘Surely heaven waits for you’) seemed strange and premature, but I felt impelled to include it in the lyrics. It proved to be prophetic.” – Livgren

From the band’s 1976 album Leftoverture, the released single ultimately reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1977 and became one of the band’s most well known and successful songs. Written by guitarist Kerry Livgren, “Carry On Wayward Son” is said to be a lyrical continuation from previous album Masque.

Not only doing the tune justice, but doing it justice with originality and style, we are more than impressed by this controlled and professionally constructed cover of Kansas’s “Carry On Wayward Son.”

+ Carry On Wayward Son Lyrics +

Carry on my wayward son,
For 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 the 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 dreamin’, I can hear them say

Carry on my wayward son,
For 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, 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,
For there’ll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don’t you cry no more

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,
For there’ll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don’t you cry no more