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Soon

by Dale Wicks

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1.
I will always be someone to lean on, but I won't be the one who carries you I will have a shoulder you can cry on, but I couldn't bear to be the cause of your blues And I will do anything you ask, but not anything you say And I couldn't live a life getting in your way I will do my best to make you smile, but I won't be your funny little clown You can count on having me to count on, but don't count on my always hangin' 'round But I'll be there for you; just understand it's me And who I've been is who I'll always be I will never ask you to stand behind me; I am only happy by your side I will live my life when you are absent; I will think of you, and the distance won't seem wide But I've watched you wait for me, so I'll come through for you 'Cause I'm a man, and that's what good men do And you're my lady, you'll come through for me, too
2.
Monsoon 03:04
Troubled times are here to stay Forecast says more on the way I'm awfully tired of running from myself But you, like a beacon in the night Beckoning me with your light, Say to trust your troubled soul to someone else When it rains, it pours Can I hide out in your lagoon To ride out this storm in the middle of my own monsoon? You dry my eyes with kisses and you set my mind at ease It's hard to hear the rain falling at times like these Without you in my corner, it would blow me all away So promise that you'll stay beside me every single day When the sky gets dark, I don't worry 'Cause I'm safe here in your room You protect me from the furies of my own monsoon When I think of you, my heart swells up Just like a big balloon You keep my boat afloat in the middle of my own monsoon So stay with me, 'neath this canopy In my own monsoon
3.
Pride don't come easy, love don't come cheap But lies are something I tell myself in my sleep Laughing ain't being happy, like sadness ain't being depressed If there's anyone who understands this, I haven't met her yet I've been juggling my vices and this one hit the floor Now each bottle takes me somewhere that I've been before So climb the ladder off the wagon Each rung gets you farther Or take another shot of trouble From Pandora's Bottle The first one seems so simple, like waking from a bad dream But simple's simply not as simple as it seems So you drink to numb the pain, and you drink to feel elation 'til you can't tell the suffering from the celebration I've been screwing up my mind 'til it sticks to what I am And it finally believes all this is worth a damn So climb the ladder off the wagon Each rung gets you farther Or take another shot of trouble From Pandora's Bottle And I know that the dawn will answer you with everything you hide And I know that your thoughts reveal themselves when there's nothing left inside So climb the ladder off the wagon Each rung gets you farther Or take another shot of trouble From Pandora's Bottle Invite disaster to your table Tell yourself you're gonna Leave after just another drink From Pandora's Bottle
4.
Puppetboy 03:26
Ran away, back again You play with me and pretend You pull the string, I obey Back again, can't escape I like to tell myself I'm strong But that falls apart when I begin my falling back to you But will it ever be enough to rid me of your curse And is that even what I want to do? I'm your puppetboy Hide inside, sit and wait For the time I create It didn't work, not surprised Try again another time I like to tell myself I'm strong But that falls apart when I begin my falling back to you But will it ever be enough to rid me of your curse And is that even what I want to do? I'm your puppetboy
5.
A moment's atonement shouldn't be the death of you and I But your speaking and seeing are focused on the things that make us die I took the bait when you hung on to fights that meant our grave My anger's growing fearsome now I took the bait Your questions and sessions grow into a startling array You hold me too tightly and only make me want to run away I took the bait when you hung on to fights that meant our grave My anger's growing fearsome now I took the bait And everything that doesn't kill us doesn't make us strong And everything you throw at me doesn't matter if you're wrong Forgiving and forgetting are foolish things to build a love around Reason and responsibility are better friends to have when you are down I took the bait when you hung on to fights that meant our grave My anger's growing fearsome now I took the bait I took the bait when you carved out a life from my mistakes And forced me into apathy I took the bait
6.
My lovely lass, she came to me when winter's grass was growing green And ice had gone away, my lovely lass, she came "A pretty day on Innisfree," my lovely lass, she said to me "Oh won't you take a stroll with me?" my lovely lass, she said Oh, we enjoyed the spring in Ireland Oh, we enjoyed it all day And so, my love, she walked with me; we walked until we reached the sea My heart was chiming jubilee together as we walked And set us down beside a tree, through fields of rye and barley We played our music beautifully, though brought no lute or fife Oh, we enjoyed the spring in Ireland Oh, we enjoyed it all day And so we lay beneath the tree while bathing in our harmony Beauty all that I could see both far and where we lay My lover held my hand and we both felt her heart and heard it beat The same sound that I felt in me beneath my lover's hand Oh, we enjoyed the spring in Ireland Oh, we enjoyed it all day
7.
I was talking to a girl from back at school the other day She said our class reunion's coming up It was the damndest thing; I couldn't think what I was going to wear Should I go, so I stayed home I could play by what they'd want for me and wear myself a suit I bought one, after all, when I loved money Or wear cutoffs and flip-flops, and flash the double-deuce at what they think Why do I gotta say anything at all? I said "Hey man, I just wanted to get it a little better" There's more to life than money and talkin' 'bout the weather I just can't think of nothing that I'd like to do forever How 'bout you? Are you happy living life the way you do? Last night, my dad said I don't try at life; I should get myself a job I said "I got a job; I sing and play guitar." I took the 20 that he gave me and left his advice behind I got all that I need to get me by I said "Hey man, I just wanted to get it a little better" There's more to life than money and talkin' 'bout the weather I just can't think of nothing that I'd like to do forever How 'bout you? Are you happy living life the way you do? I make my music just for me in a room I rent myself I wake up each new day and do nothing that I hate Except not having money, but that's a price you pay And you pay a price for everything these days I said "Hey man, I just wanted to get it a little better" There's more to life than money and talkin' 'bout the weather I just can't think of nothing that I'd like to do forever How 'bout you? Are you happy living life the way you do?
8.
The space between is killing me The distance set in place by her What I love, lost again in the drowning of a dream deferred She's dreaming of fireflies while I'm dreaming of her Looking for love or what she finds Impossible images of life beyound her dreams Of fireflies The time away and time kept awake Make it difficult for me My familiar phrases sent to very different places I'm losing heat She's dreaming of fireflies while I'm dreaming of her Looking for love or what she finds Impossible images of life beyound her dreams Of fireflies
9.
Color Me In 02:34
Color me in Come on and color me Put words in my mouth Paint yourself on my skin Look for yourself in the eyes of everyone you meet Equate those who hurt you with those who disagree Changing the subject to your pet-cause frequently You won't even let me quit the game until I feel the same So color me in Come on and color me in Where society ends is where you begin Can you even be satisfied? 'Cause it's some other battle when one battle ends Can't you be friendly, at least to your friends? I swear I remember laughing by your side Or has that part of you died? So color me in Come on and color me in Burn down your straw man and say that I'm him Tolerance is easy when everyone thinks like you Because you can't have a dialog all by yourself So extend your empathy to someone else Anger feeds a narrative and not a conversation, if I'm not mistaken So color me in Come on and color me Put words in my mouth Paint yourself on my skin Look for yourself in the eyes of everyone you meet Until you believe yourself
10.
Terminal 05:01
Sitting here in the terminal Waiting for the end of the line Waiting can be very difficult She's going out of sight And I'm out of my mind It's lonely out here in the terminal People here know where the story ends People say goodbyes that they don't mean I wonder if they'll ever meet again Solitude brings clarity Clarity brings hope I wait 'cause I've got nowhere else to go One place is another And everything is strange Why does everybody have to change? Why does everybody have to change? Stuck inside a future flowing slowly toward the past I know just what to say I've said it all before But I don't know if I can say it anymore I don't think that I can say it anymore I think I might stay in the terminal And pretend that the end is the beginning And that I didn't fail you in the simplest of ways But I'm tangled in this twisted web we're spinning Solitude brings clarity Clarity brings hope I wait 'cause I've got nowhere else to go One place is another And everything is strange Why does everybody have to change? Why does everybody have to change?

about

"Soon" is kind of a joke title; I play most instruments myself when I record, so it takes a LONG time for me to do anything. Several of the songs appeared on a discarded version of the album called "Monsoon" (after one of the songs), and I thought it was bad luck to call it the same thing!

My original idea was to do something simple and stripped-down. I'd been listening to stuff like Joni Mitchell's "Clouds" and Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska," which were basically just singer and guitar albums, and I wanted to do something like that. It made sense; that's the way I usually perform. My rule was going to be no drums recorded for this album, but I didn't stick to it. I ended up adding drums to the very first song I did!

You can still hear my original idea peeking, through, in the sparser arrangements of most of the tracks, like "Puppetboy" & "Fireflies." I managed to complete 3 songs without adding any percussion at all, which is 3 more than I'd ever done before. I added drumkit to several tunes but only played snare drum on 2 songs, plus one full-kit outtake from my last album (2016's "Only Passing Through") that I finished up for this one. The rest of the percussion is much sparser than what I usually do.

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released June 1, 2018

Nelson Wood: Dobro on 1 & 7
Russell Gorton: Cello on 3, 6, 8, & 10
Matt Ten Clay: Mixing & Matering
Dale Wicks: Everything Else

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