Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Words and Music by Jeff Shea
2005

I thought sunshine
Would fill me with light
I thought freedom
Would give me the gift of flight
I thought truth
Would give me peace of mind
But what is true?
I’m still blind.

(Chorus)
Extraordinary popular delusions
And the madness of crowds
A book my father gave me when I was impressionable
Tulips and alchemy
Football and the glory of war
We mount to heaven on the steps of our broken dreams*

I called God
Who wasn’t there.
Divined magic
It was thin air.
I called Science
To open my mind
But after all
I’m still blind.

(Chorus)

—Excuse me while I float awhile

The stone that has the power
Turn lesser metal into gold
—Impossible you may say
I think I’ll use it
To make the new world from the old
—If I reach inside me
Well, if I reach inside me
There I find the stone
Within the mind’s recesses
Awesome power has its home

My earliest memories
Suppressed till today
Well, I can move a mountain
—I can move a mountain
Don’t stand in my way

Global Village
Music by Jeff Shea and Will Kennedy
Words by Jeff Shea
2004

Hear me, my brother,
Gather ‘round, mothers
The world is ripe for change
We’re a Global Village
We’re all out there fightin’
Let’s enter a new age

Defense spending escalatin’
The Village leaders are gettin’ fat
And we’re using their weapons against ourselves
Earth can be like heaven
If we get it together

(Chorus)
Nightfall I look up to the stars.
I’m reminded that we are all one
All of mankind, one family
Let’s make this a planet of peace

As I see it from where I stand
The government of this global land
Is a weapons manufacturer that wars against its customers
When the legislative body of this global state legislates
Does Happiness even calculate?

Defense spending escalatin’
Shut down the weapons factories
Open the universities
Make electricity from breeze
Stop the violence if you please

(Chorus)

Villagers around this global village
Unite and take control
To make this world a better home

Nightfall I look up to the stars.
—Believe in Peace on this planet
—Don’t let war control
All of mankind, one family
—Believe in peace
—Reap what you sow

(Chorus)

Feast of Love
Words and Music by Jeff Shea
2005

You smashed a pillow on my head
A race around the bed
Leaving a trail of fallen roses
From your hair

(Chorus)
There’s a Feast of Love
Waiting behind every corner
When your company’s the one that I’m in
There’s a Feast of Love
About to begin
There’s a Feast of Love
There’s a Feast of Love
For the open heart
The world’s reflecting the beauty within
When your company’s the one that I’m in
There’s a Feast of Love
About to begin
There’s a Feast of Love
There’s a Feast of Love

There was a feast
Till the cupboards were bare
I was consumed
By love everywhere

The shuttered windows
Open wide
The cold advanced inside
But I was cocooned
With the Goddess of the Moon

Terra Man!
Music by Jeff Shea and Will Kennedy
Words by Jeff Shea and Will Kennedy
2005

Every time you’re workin’
It’s unsafe to walk the street
Your idea of living:
Halloween without the treat

Come out from where you’re hidin’
Let me take you on.
Twisted moralizin’
Don’t change right and wrong.
There’s no mitigatin’
the screams you have caused.
They’ll be no hesitatin’
When justice calls.

(Chorus)
Terra Man! You invaded my world
—Good will win in the end—
Ignorance is the candle you hold
—But there’s no light that’s stronger than love—

You have your believers
You’ve brainwashed every one of them.
You may be the king of darkness
But good will win out in the end.

Ya hung up on destruction
All we want is freedom
Hate is what your preachin’
Disguised in religion
Time the global village
Reared up its head
Track you like a cancer
Till your cause is dead.

Chorus

I dream of days in a simple world
Where we can walk around free
Why is it man against his friend?
It doesn’t have to be.

Terra Man Outro!
Music by Jeff Shea and Will Kennedy
Lyrics by Jeff Shea

Watch the politicians
Got their minds on GNP
Increase in production:
Global warming, rising sea.
Waste the evolution of
Our entire planet?
Quantum leaping over the
Things we take for granted?
Live beyond emotion?
Let’s be logical
Think about our future,
How far we could go.

Who’s the Terra Man?

Wings
Music by Jeff Shea and Will Kennedy
Words by Jeff Shea and Will Kennedy
2000

Sometimes in the dark
You whisper
I love you
Who do I turn to ask
Why I’m the lucky one?

Though I lay awake,
It feels like I’m dreaming
I hoped for a woman like you
And here you are beside me
You’ve given your love,
And the greatest gift of all—
A new life.

(Chorus)
You’re the wind in my wings
Flying high
You’re a love come true
Beyond my dreams.
You’re the wind in my wings
I’m flying
Flying high

Even while you sleep,
I see that you’re changing,
The miracle that came from our love
Is happening inside you.
There’s so many ways
That you bring happiness.
I love you.

(Chorus, altered)
You’re the wind in my wings
Flying high
A love come true
Beyond my dreams.
You’re the wind in my wings
A love come true.

(Outro)
Every day that I’m together with you,
Doing the things that we want to do.
Every day that I’m together with you,
You’re makin’ all my dreams come true

You bring me so much happiness
Baby you’re a dream come true
You bring me so much happiness