Mr. Fantasy is the debut album by English rock band Traffic. It was released in 1967. For the recording, group members included Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood, Chris Wood, and Dave Mason, however Mason left the band before the album was released. The album reached the number 16 position in the UK albums chart,^[1] and number 88 in the American Billboard charts.^[2]

The sitar, widely associated with this era of Traffic due to its use on "Paper Sun", is only used on one track on the album, "Utterly Simple".

The first US version of the album on United Artists Records was titled Heaven Is In Your Mind and had a cover that featured all members of the group except Dave Mason. The title was quickly changed back to Mr. Fantasy but the new cover remained until Island Records reissued the UK version in the late 1970s. Both the US and UK editions were released in substantially different stereo and mono mixes. One song in particular, "Giving to You", was released in 3 different versions, including similar mono and stereo versions from the U.K. album, plus a very different mono U.K. b-side mix, which also was later included on the U.S. mono LP. The special U.K. b-side mix includes lyrics sung by Winwood during the introduction which are not heard on any other version. The soundtrack album for Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush also contains a recording of "Utterly Simple" which is a different take than the one used on this album.

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Heaven Is In Your Mind

You ride on the swing
In and out of the bars
Capturing moments of life in a jar
Playing with children,
Acting as stars
Guiding your visions to heaven
And heaven is in your mind
Take extra care not to lose what you feel
The apple you're eating is simple and real
So water the flowers that grow at you heel
Guiding your visions to heaven
And heaven is in your mind

--song written by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi & Ron Wood

Heaven Here & Now

You have to keep something.

Don't grow up so fast.

Nothing wrong with a protracted adolescence.

I'm not talking Peter Pan Syndrome necessarily.

You're still a stud. You're still a babe.

The child knows. The child sees.

Too many adults lose the sense of well-being.

They turn from happiness & turn into Babbitts.

Life can be hard tough cruel.

But there's also the flip side

If you're lucky clever &/or work at it.

Beauty of all kinds is all around you.

Within you, too.

Or at least the idea of beauty.

Truth is Beauty like Keats said.

And Beauty is Truth.

And with that realization comes Happiness

Perhaps if you're not too late

Recognizing it.  Then joyfully celebrate Life

& Love & get to repairing the world.

Build Heaven here on Earth.

Death might be the only Messiah,

But Heaven is only available

In the Here & Now.

So keep strong & focused

And leave something beautiful behind.

The Golden Age never was.

Its in the direction you sometimes get a glimmer of.

-JSW aka GP