Let It Come Down

CHORUS
Let it come down, Lay it all down
  Let it tumble to the ground.
Set it all free, let it all be.
  Watch the circle turn around.
Just free the chains that cause you pain.
  And in a while the seasons sing a change.
Can you feel the change? Nothin' stays the same,
Can you feel the change?

Take your time, get in line, there's a reason 
  You're breathing the air.
Gather round, hear the sound, soon the music
  Of Spring will be here.
Sunny summer, rusty Fall, snowy Winter chills us all
  There ain't nothing to do but hold onto each 
   Other and say...Let it all down, lay it all down.
   Let it all come down.

CHORUS

Well, it'll take awhile, but you will see
  That you're not as alone as you feel.
Give a smile, I'll guarantee that your
  Troubles will all seem unreal.
And if tomorrow you trip and fall,
  I'll come a runnin', you just call
  Put your hand in my hand and we'll
  Join in together and say... Let it all down, lay it all down,
  Let it all come down.

Chorus

Let it Come Down

Love As Faith

When my arms are tree limbs you are the wind, you kiss them.
  When my tears are seething gales, you are the sun, you dry them.
When my thoughts are dangling curls you comb them and dress them.
  When my eyes are burning fields you bring water, you dowse them.

CHORUS
Love As Faith, faith in promises, promise roils in the crucible.
  Love your way, live for loving you, we will melt in the cauldron and
  Become one together.

When my fingers are rivers you dam them and tame them.
  When my soul is earth you till it and plant it.
When I am a story you read me and tell me.
  When my feelings are seasons you turn, and turn.

CHORUS

When I am unreachable you find me and talk to me.
  When I act unteachable you guide me and correct me.
When I feel so powerful you challenge me and defeat me.
  And when I feel so locked out you open doors and greet me.

CHORUS 

Love as Faith

Heal the Human Soul

Try to veil a shadow,
  Try to blind a sightless mole,
Try to hold an apparition,
  To fill an empty hole.

Keep it buried deep in side you,
  Where it feeds on your neglect.
It burrows and turns over
  Your pride an self respect.

Close your eyes, unearth your legacy.
  Sacrifice your mask and your disguise
Then take the angel and break her wings, shake the baby while the cradle swings.
  Burn your heroes in effigy, and turn the pages back to Heal the Human Soul.
          (you wouldn't kill a butterfly with a canon, would you?)

Leave familiar harbors,
  Sailing bold and blind.
Set to penetrate the mist
  Surrounding humankind.

With miles of boiling ocean
  As far as you can see.
Torch the hull and let it sink,
  Set the cargo free

Open arms, embrace infinity.
  Dance of life, waltz back in memory.
Then take the angel and break her wings, shake the baby while the cradle swings.
  Burn your heroes in effigy, and turn the pages back to Heal the Human Soul.

Sell out, fall in, breakdown, buy out.
  Pick a peck of fallen idols, Dear.
Baby's nursed on bread and Brandy
  To play a pawn in a spiritual slave trade, Dear...oh Dear! 


Heal the Human Soul

Whole New World
Gail Warning*/Larry Dean Embry
(*Gail Sherman Johnson)

You can go beyond the open door.
  You can get below the falling floor.
Open your ears you hear it.
  Reach out your arms as you near it.
The inner mirror is blindin'.
  And time always unwindin'.
Now every shooting star has a got a wish
  Onboard a ridin' shotgun.

Somebody said 'you can't go home'
  Now tell me where's that etched in stone?
Oh, darlin' home is where your soul is.

It's a whole new world
  Good mornin' everybody.
It's a whole new world.
  Good mornin' everybody, yeah.

You can swim across the river deep.
  Climb that summit, nevermind how steep.
Open your eyes you see it.
  Visualize you can be it.
The struggle's just about endin'.
  Salvation's round the bend.
Just put your hands together, stomp your feet,
  Lift your voice to glory. 

  And if the weight you have to shoulder,
Is so much more than you can hold.
  Oh Darlin', watch your dreams unfold here.

Whole New World (Warning/Embry)

A Place In The Sun

I found a place in the sun
  And I go there.
When time gets so heavy
  Just can't hold up anymore.

Cold wind, will not trouble
  Cold eyes will not see.
Hard hands cannot touch me there
  Hard times cannot be.

Break through blind walls
  crawl through wreckage,
Let my fingertips feel their way around the rubble
Listen to the dust, tell me how I must...
  Calm myself, settle down.

I never have to give anybody anything there.

I weave, I turn, I fall
  Like a stone
Through glass forged of liquid
  Over sand hill, under sea.

Cold words cannot travel,
  Cold minds are not free.
Harsh names are not uttered there,
  Harsh thoughts cannot be.

Crash the surface spray,
  Sink with Heron's tail
Let the water-road push my muscle down to seabed.
Lesson of the rust: Iron I was once.
  Calm yourself, settle down.

I never have to give anybody anything there!

A Place in the Sun

Fostex 8 track cassette recording. Recorded at The Farm in Van Nuys

Dale Nickey - Vocals, Korg Synthesizer, Fretless Bass
Dominic Bakewell - Piano, Drum Program
Produced and Recorded by Dominic Bakewell
Words and Music by Dale NIckey

The Sadness In Your Smile (Demo)

Sylvie

Hard Act to Follow

Composed in 1981 and recorded in 1983 at Thornhill Studios, Canoga Park Ca.

Concerto • Rick Vartian • 1983

Sweet California

Keep Dancing

New Album out on ITUNES & CD BABY 

This site contains music I have recorded as a solo artist and with in collaboration with others. I have also posted music by musicians I am closely associated with. My solo albums "Time Takes No Prisoners", "A Distant Different Past" and “The Hourglass Eye” are all available on ITunes, CD Baby and many other online retailers. Punk, Ambient, British Folk, Progressive and Bluegrass are some of the genres that I have investigated. So please draw no hard conclusions from any individual track you may stumble upon...

The mission of this site is to archive and represent different stages of my musical journey dating back to the 70's. Many great lost bands, musicians and recordings are to be found here.  The common thread is my participation in all of this music as collaborator, curator and/or leader...

The Sadness In Your Smile (Demo)

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