“The war, of course, furnished many examples of this pattern: the casual fact, the creative imagination, the will to believe, and out of these three elements, a counterfeit of reality to which there was a violent instinctive response. For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities, and that in many cases they help to create the very fictions to which they respond.” - Walter Lippman, Public Opinion
lyrics
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
credits
from The Casual Fact,
released August 8, 2021
Music & lyrics by Anthony Moser
Recorded at Pieholden Studios
Mixed by Matt DeWine and Antony Ablan
Mastered at The Boiler Room by Collin Jordan
Produced by Antony Ablan
Guitar & Vox - Anthony Moser
Drums - Andrew Pilacoutas
Bass - Nik Skilnik
Keys - Marty Sammon
Saxophone - Chris Neal
Trumpet - Johndavid Provitt
I'm on it doing backup vocals, and it's a great album. It's folk, it's rock, it's all over the place. It's good, and you'll like it. Seriously. Anthony Moser
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