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The Big Reveal

from The Big Reveal (album) by Casual Fantastic

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This is the moment of the big reveal,
This is the moment you steel yourself and look into his eyes,
This is the moment you lay your cards down on the table
When you say everything that must be said
That they don’t know is known and now cannot hide behind illusions
This is the moment of the story when the roles shall be reversed
Under the burning light of the truth all that’s wrong shall be undone
reconstructed, put to rights
This is the moment of the big reveal so it cannot be
denied and no questions because because because . . .
He looks at you and says I’m sorry,
it seems you’ve mistaken me for some other guy
You catch your breath you did not expect
to be denied, so much time you put into
So much work into preparing for this day, for this moment
You cannot alter course now, the ship is sailing to the big reveal
you say, no, no that’s not possible
I know you so well
I see all that you’ve seen,
I know everywhere you’ve been
I’ve even watched you in my sleep
I’ve look upon your dreams . . .
He says that may all be true
I myself have not been watching you,
but those dreams you say I have
of the night that births the earth
of the goat that bleeds a sea
hungry mountains made of teeth
a cave of sorrows far beneath
That beckons loners down a well
And dancing shadows stalk the woods, left their bodies
In a maze by a fire turned to snakes who shriek joy noise
As their flames lick the sky and paint the stars
it all sounds very strange and wonderful
I would tell you if I had but when I sleep
I don’t have dreams, in my sleep stop)
I’ve never seen a thing
And you look for one last tell even though
You know full well he tells the truth
You saw what you saw,
Broke it apart, remade it all, the everyday into fantastic shapes,
The great mysteries you solved because
You went beneath the skin cataloguing everything
but you forget the skin carries and protects. It’s not nothing . . .
What did your old lover say, you need a change of scene,
you’d be better off to leave, stop fighting for your place to be,
but how can you take advice from someone you
despise but it’s true you need a change of scene and maybe
That’s the big reveal maybe that’s the big reveal

credits

from The Big Reveal (album), released April 4, 2023
Josh McIlvain: guitar, bass, vocals, piano
Nikitas Menotiades: bck vocals

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Casual Fantastic Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Casual Fantastic mixes up a musical brew of original rock n roll, parlor pop, lounge punk, and country noir. Formed in 2019, the band features songwriter Josh McIlvain on guitar and vocals with Nikitas Menotiades on stand up drums (with an old suitcase for the bass drum) and backing vocals. Art by Luisa Colon. ... more

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