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The Casual Fact

by Anthony Moser

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I CAN DRIVE better than most, despite all the wrecks I can drive better than most, despite all the wrecks That’s the Dunning-Kruger Effect I thought it was good even though it was bad and the audience left I thought it was good even though it was bad and the audience left That’s the Dunning-Kruger Effect I don’t know why I can’t tell I don’t know why I don’t know why I can’t tell I don’t know why I can’t tell I don’t know why I don’t know why
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YOU CAN LOSE your body but don’t you lose your mind You can be immortal baby or something of the kind like the idea of a wheel As long as you’re still the person you were when you were five As long as you haven’t changed darling as long as you’ve been alive like the idea of a wheel Upload download transfer won’t change you a bit But you won’t eat or drink or sleep oh no or have to take a shit Like the idea of a wheel Sometimes what you’re thinking depends on where you are And you can only live forever if that was how you start Like the idea of a wheel
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I HAVE GOT OPINIONS on films I haven’t seen and I’ll gladly recommend to you a place I’ve never been but for something I imagine to be something I believe there’s something that I’m missing, there’s one thing that I need and that’s the casual fact, it’s so easy to know you just see what you want, you just see what you want That’s the casual fact you just know what you see you just see what you know you just take it from me and that’s the casual fact I can’t say that I’ve met him but I’ve heard the word around My sister’s doctor’s cousin lives over near his town And I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t heard it said but my sister’s doctor’s cousin put this picture in my head And that’s the casual fact, it’s so easy to know you just see what you want, you just see what you want That’s the casual fact you just know what you see you just see what you know you just take it from me and that’s the casual fact I find what I’m expecting is often what I find, that often my perception seems to match my state of mind Don’t think I want to know it, I just want to think I know When evidence is lacking, there’s still once place I can go And that’s the casual fact, it’s so easy to know you just see what you want, you just see what you want That’s the casual fact you just know what you see you just see what you know you just take it from me cause that’s the casual fact, it’s so easy to know you just see what you want, you just see what you want That’s the casual fact you just know what you see you just see what you know you just take it from me and that’s the casual fact that’s the casual fact that’s the casual fact
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Morning Song 02:07
AND IN THE MORNING before the sun creeps through my window I sing this song la da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da And when I breathe in I breathe in the air that’s all around me the oxygen goes through my heart and down da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da All through my body All through my body All through my bo da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da dum And when the light dies when the light dies And when the light dies I sing this song la da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da dum
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COME ON MISS SINCERITY won’t you come and dance with me Oh wear me down, wear me down A rusty tin man’s all you see but I’m hoping somehow I could be something more, something more Miss Sincerity you frighten me Your charm and my nerves do not agree Oh wear me down, wear me down I’ve got a guitar in my hands Word armies answer my command But before I reach the promised land I have to see the contract I must sign I dream and wonder day to day If life is not a big cliche And every hope has a price to pay Are you coming to collect? Come on Mis Sincerity I’m nervous and I’m jittery Oh wear me down, wear me down Some people sing of bees and birds But all I see is a dusty hearse and little more, and little more Miss Sincerity give me a try I’d like to live before I die Oh wear me down, wear me down Love has made great cities fall And reached around the thickest wall But the most meaningful words will stall When you read them out loud And if I come and dance with you I worry that you’ll run me through It seems like something I would do in a disappointing dream Come on Miss Sincerity Won’t you come and dance with me Oh wear me down, wear me down Oh wear me down Oh wear me down Oh wear me down, Miss Sincerity oh, wear me down oh wear me down (wear me down) oh wear me down (wear me down) Miss Sincerity oh wear me down oh wear me down oh wear me down
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Mausoleum 05:18
DON’T GO LIVING among the dead put such foolishness out of your head there’s many a room with a bed where the living folks haven’t all fled and there’s no sense of doom or of dread Don’t sleep with those who never wake up and don’t drink from Socrates’ cup No not even a sip lest you cower and stumble and trip and lie bleeding from your lower lip Don’t try living with those who are not for although it’s a comfortable spot Someone else bought and paid for that plot There are qualities that you have got Your neighbors also had ought to have Don’t ask favors of those who are dead Don’t try to make gold from their lead Or think that a big marble shed could somehow turn stone into bread Or tell you what hasn’t been said
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I ONCE ASSUMED we’d all agree that unarmed children shouldn’t be shot down without warning on the street But now I find that I was wrong some find a way to blame it on the victim whose life is incomplete Well I guess we just see differently the police and me And I guess we don’t see eye to eye the police and I Just as long as they’re afraid they can gun you down today and never face a trial or a court Anytime and anywhere they beat a man cuffed to a hospital chair and still wrote him up as a suspect in their report Well I guess we just see differently the police and me And I guess we don’t see eye to eye the police and I Don’t you call the boys in blue you never know what they will do If anybody’s feeling fear why is it the people here with guns and helmets vests and armored cars Who knock unarmed civilians down and shoot them lying on the ground but never get arrested or get charged Well I guess we just see differently the police and me And I guess we don’t see eye to eye the police and I Yeah I guess we just see differently the police and me and I guess we don’t see eye to eye the police and I guess oh I guess we just see differently the police and me
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YOU THINK YOU KNOW SOMEBODY and then you find out it weren’t true You think you know somebody and the things they’d never do I thought I knew my brother Oh but that isn’t what I found And even if he doesn’t go to prison I don’t know I want him round You think you know what happened And it won’t happen anymore But sometimes it’s uncertain after Oh just like it was before Well you know I still love you Oh but I don’t know what to say I thought I knew somebody but it wasn’t that way I thought I knew somebody But it wasn’t that way
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THERE ARE THINGS I used to do I don’t do anymore I don’t regret the doing but I don’t regret the stopping even more Anyone who’s kicked a habit or left town will know that things can go away And there’s a moment before sundown at the end of the longest day And there’s a last time for everything There’s a last time for everything The wealthy and the powerful like to think that it will never end But you know what’s going up is coming down and on that you can depend Everybody wants to hold on to what they have and not forget But good or bad or ugly I can tell you it’s a pretty solid bet That there’s a last time for everything Yes there’s a last time for everything Maybe this song it ought to have another verse Could pull it all together then again might make it worse At the end of all revision there’s a moment where you finally must decide Something stays and something goes and someone more or less feels satisfied And there’s a last time for everything Yeah there’s a last time for everything Oh Romulus Augustulus there’s someone at the door It’s some guy named Odoacer with some words I’ve heard before he said there’s a last time for everything (I think he might be right) yeah there’s a last time for everything Up on the bridge old Captain Edward Smith said to his friend I know that I’ve been wrong before I think I won’t be wrong again cause there’s a last time oh for everything Yes there’s a last time for everything and I said everybody knows someone who won’t be coming round and you never know when parting what might be your final sound but there is a last time for everything Yes there’s a last time for everything
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IT DOESN’T MATTER who you are it doesn’t matter where you’re from It doesn’t matter what you look like It doesn’t matter what you think Cause all that I need is a perfect plan All that I need is a perfect plan and I don’t need to understand It doesn’t matter what you want It doesn’t matter what you have It doesn’t matter what you do It doesn’t matter what you need Cause all that I need is a perfect plan All that I need is a perfect plan And I don’t need to understand It works for everybody It works for everybody in every time and every place It works for everybody yeah it’ll work for you I don’t need nobody to help me along I don’t need nobody to help me along all that I need all that I need all that I need is a perfect plan all that I need all that I need all that I need is a perfect plan

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released August 8, 2021

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Anthony Moser plays blues, folk, jazz and original music.

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