Caring Is Creepy by the Shins. A cover I recorded at my dear friend, Brian Chodorcoff's house.

cover: Caring Is Creepy by The Shins

Folie à Deux  was a short lived project I had with Kyle DiFulvio on the drums. This was our first practice together and we made this one up on the spot. It was the last song of our jam at Bedrock Rehearsal in Echo Park, CA one cold night in November back in the before times.

If Insult Plus Injury Equals Y, Than Y Is You

I don't know. I covered this a while back ago. It came up on my shuffle, so I thought I'd share it... because, why not add one more Shins song to my collection of Shins covers? I'd give this a mediocre rating for a cover...it just is what it is, but a lovely song nonetheless. I guess I'm still crushing on James Mercer...

The lyrics:
As someone sets light to the first fire of autumn
We settle down to cut ourselves apart
Cough and twitch from the news on your face
And some foreign candle burning in your eyes
Held to the past, too aware of the pending
Chill as the dawn breaks and finds us up for sale
Enter the fog another low road descending
Away from the cold lust, your house and summertime
Blind to the last cursed affair, pistols and countless eyes
A trail of white blood betrays the reckless route your craft is running
Feed 'til the sun turns into wood dousing an ancient torch
Loiter the whole day through and lose yourself in lines dissecting love
Your name on my cast and my notes on your stay
Offer me little but doting on a crime
We've turned every stone and for all our inventions
In matters of love loss, we've no recourse at all
Blind to the last cursed affair, pistols and countless eyes
A trail of white blood betrays the reckless route your craft is running
Feed 'til the sun turns into wood dousing an ancient torch
Loiter the whole day through and lose yourself in lines dissecting
Lose yourself in lines dissecting
Lose yourself in lines dissecting
Lose yourself in lines dissecting
Lose yourself in lines dissecting
Lose yourself in lines dissecting
Lose yourself in lines dissecting
Lose yourself in lines dissecting
Lose yourself in lines dissecting love

The Past And The Pending By The Shins Cover ML

A tribute to Ray Liotta. “Act Cool (aka Goodfella”
© 2022 Michèle Lane

I don’t know how to 
act when I’m with you
I just want to act…
I just want to act…
I just want to act cool.

I don’t know how to act around you.
But I just want to act…
I just want to act cool.

He was a Goodfella.
He was a Goodfella.
He was a Goodfella!
Fella….fella…fella!

I don’t know how to 
act when I’m around 
you
And I just want to act…
I just want to act cool.

Play me for a fool!

Yeah

Just want to act cool!

Act Cool aka Goodfella (RIP Ray Liotta)

Harmonic and melodious. Wrote this song on ipad with garageband in my car during my lunch breaks. [this is why you can hear cars driving by at times]. Listening to a lot of Grizzly Bear lately. This song may be the result of that...

© 2014 Michèle Lane lyrics and music

Who Are We? Ever Mindful...

Fun Christmas track I recorded with Chuck Culbertson. Yes, we incorporated Kazoos and a slide whistle.

Mele Kalikimaka

while at jury duty, i messed around on garageband and wrote this tribute to radiohead's "all i need". mainly because i couldn't get the song out of my head. i added vocals after i was dismissed from jury duty while i was sitting in traffic on my way home. i added the ending part today….

All I Want [Radiohead tribute]

A new recording of a song I wrote a little while ago. Acoustic. Sad. Cheryl Lindsey on drums. Sean Agopian on bass. Michèle Lane guitar and vocals.

Lyrics
Another reckless morning
Swept away and we're back in our bubble
now that you know i am yours
pull your pin and throw your grenade
pull your pin and throw your grenade
i am behind you all the way
and i am with you all the way
i don't know where we are going
but i know where we've already been
now that you know i am yours
pull your pin and throw your grenade
pull your pin and throw your grenade
i am behind you all the way
and i am with you all the way
all the way
all the way...

Pull Your Pin + Throw Your Grenade

Just messin' around on garageband with some beats and sounds when I was bored after feeling inspired and influenced by the blockwick game soundtrack.

Project Monarch

TAKE 2...I've tried fixing the bass in this mix, added a small keyboard part and a tiny bit of vocal harmonies, and attempted adding a drum track of sorts... This was a pretty tough feat since I neglected to play to a click track...oh wellsers.

LYRICS:
Here we are, we're back in the park.
It looks like it's snowin, you say that you know and...
Never mind the books that we've read and
all that we've learned and all that they've said...
Cause, who the hell are "they" anyway?
And who the hell cares what "they" have to say!

May we all learn the way.
May we all find the way.
May we all find our way.
May we all find our way!

Here we are, we're back in the dark.
It looks like it's rainin' but I swear I'm not complainin'.
And never mind all the songs that we've heard,
And all that we've learned, and all that they said.
Cause, who the hell are "they" anyway?
And who the hell cares what "they" have to say?

May we all learn the way.
May we all find our way.
May we all find our way.
May we all find our way....

© 2016 Lyrics and Music by Michèle Lane

May We All Find Our Way [take 2]

You Knew aka You Knew I Loved You More
© lyrics, music, production by Michèle Lane ® all rights reserved.

you play such dirty games
you say i'll never change
but you knew, you knew how much we hurt each other before
and you knew, oh, you knew that i loved you more
so why'd you have to go and say all those things?
why'd you have to go and do all those things?

you mark your territory
you shark, you hardly know me
but you knew, you knew how much we hurt each other before
and you knew, oh you knew that i loved you more
so why'd you have to go and say all those things?
why'd you have to go and do all those things?
why'd you have to go and say all those things?
why'd you have to go and do all those things?

You Knew [i loved you more]

Raised this song from the dead last night by re-recording it on GarageBand. Don't know whatever happened to the original recording. Oh, well. I think it's all better now.

Kleptomaniac by Michèle Lane © 1998 & 2016

You broke my heart to tell me you're giving me a heart attack.
You stole my soul and told me you sold it to the devil.
Your love took it's toll so you'd make me pay forever.
I'm indebted to you and it looks like I will be that way forever.
You broke my window of opportunity, then you slammed my open door.
You stole my soul and told me you sold it to the devil.
Sick, sick, sick.
Your love took it's toll so you'd make me pay forever.
I'm indebted to you and it looks like I will be that way forever.

Kleptomaniac

a song about dying while on acid... 

"into the woods, you run, on a never ending trip. you turn into the light. you turn into the after life. into the woods, you fall, on a never ending trip. you will turn to the light. you will run into the after life..."

After Life [sneak peak]

This is a demo only. A work in progress. Still editing and mastering but here is a sneak peek... built a radiohead-esque beat on ultra beat on Logic, then added keys, bass, and vox. Lyrics pending. Not sure why this goes on for so long, i'm sure i probably meant to end it much sooner. Think it's time to get back to work on this one and try to finish it up. will try to wrap it up sooner than 8 mins.

© 2019 Michele Lane Music

Turn Off The Television

I Can Feel Okay

Chance of Snow

Memorial Day

music saved my life

i was just sitting at a keyboard at a place called big orange sound in santa monica (just down the street from where I worked), and the sound that came out was sick, and i just wrote this there on the spot, i know you from somewhere. cheryl lindsey was there. chris thoman was there. it was magical. he played guitar licks. i tried not to mess up too bad on the keys.

Catalog V

I Know You From Somewhere_ML - 2:3:17, 7.32 PM

sound tracky work in progress needs mix and master

Inner Stellar_ML

Canopy of Clouds © 2010 Michèle Lane

Flick on your hazards
and fill up your empty tank
You don't have to hold your breath down there
and you don't have to rob that bank.
I don't know what we were talking about
I lost my train of thought again
I am underneath a canopy of clouds
I'm in a fog again.

wave your white flag my friend
we just might throw this fight
walk the wire hire over hell
and just take a dive

i don't know what we were talking about
i lost my train of thought again
i am underneath a canopy of clouds
i'm in a fog again
i said
create, love and make mistakes
create, love and create mistakes.

Live at Mirage Cafe

Michele Lane - Canopy Of Clouds 2013 - 02 - 01 Mirage Cafe, Long Beach (T05w)

© 1998 lyrics & music by Michèle Lane
David Schweizer produced/recorded on ADAT. 
Michèle Lane on guitar and vocals
Anthony Cole on drums [poor guy, I could never play to a click]
Brian Chodorcoff on electric guitar
David Schweizer on bass
recorded in David Schweizer's attic.

You Don't Know Me

wrote this after reading my favorite children's book, "The Phantom Tollbooth" and experiencing sleep paralysis after seeing a blue flashing light outside of my bedroom window...recorded it at full sail recording arts studio on a 6 inch reel to reel =) nice warm sound...

© 1998 lyrics & music by Michèle Lane

2 a.m. when i awoke and ate my words for breakfast
simplified, razor wit, i grow until my feet touch the ground
i build facades of truth because it's all that i can do
to keep myself inside my heart where everything is true

hyper-color fantasy, i'm frozen in my body
slip inside and wake me up to keep me going steady
i'm blowin' up at the top, i'm blowin' up at the top
i build facades of truth because it's all that i could do
to keep myself inside my heart where everything is true

you can find the divine power within your own mind child
you can find the divine power within your own mind child

It Was All That I Could Do

© 2000 lyrics and music by Michèle Lane 
Michèle Lane guitar/vox
Chuck Culbertson mandolin/backing vox/drums/piano

i wrote this about a couple amazing friends I had who od'd after finding out that my old best friend was also using... heroin is such a powerful and horrible drug...

"i've been through so much emotion since you told me the fluid ran through you....girl you've always been my best friend, but it's too late for me to unscrew you"

Champagne & Sugar

© 2001 lyrics & music by Michèle Lane 

no direction! no attention!
no pass
portrait
take out
everyone here is the victim

[i really don't like my lyrics in this song... so i feel like it's still a work in progress as well...i was very lazy about writing it because i just wanted to get it recorded] 

Lost

© 2010 Michèle Lane music & lyrics

flick on your hazards and fill up your empty tank
you don't have to hold your breath down there
and you don't have to rob that bank

i don't know what we were talking about
i lost my train of thought again
i am underneath a canopy of clouds
i'm in a fog again

Canopy of Clouds

I wrote this song for my final exam in music class. I know it's a bit out there and kind of all over the place. I guess you could say that it's still a work in progress...

© 2007 Michèle Lane

Broken

one thousand photographic flashes
glittering in the snow
the way you bat your beautiful long eyelashes
oh, I think you know...

© 2009 Michèle Lane Lyrics and Music

Toro, Toro, Toro

Michèle Lane covers Elliot Smith Independence Day. Chuck Culbertson on guitar, Michèle Lane on Vocals and Keyboards. Elliott Smith is my favorite artist. I have "xo" in his handwriting tattooed on my left wrist. I love him so much. I would love to cover more of his music at some point. He is a genius and my hero of a songwriter.

cover: Independence Day by Elliott Smith

Come Back From NYC

We Don't Have To Wake Up

Another cover of Elliott Smith. He is one of my favorite artists. I have "xo" in his handwriting tattooed on my left wrist. 

cover: I Didn't Understand by Elliott Smith

I love Jeremy Enigk. My cover doesn't do him justice, but I still just had to cover him because I love his music so much.

The song is from the album, "Return of the Frog Queen" which was released the same day my father passed away, July 23rd, 1996.

cover: Lewis Hollow by Jeremy Enigk

piano and vocals... I remember playing this song over and over, repeatedly, the day my father passed away. I don't know why. It just made sense.

cover: Fade Out [Street Spirit] by Radiohead

bite my head off, i don't want to
think about this anymore than you do...
bite my head off, oh bite my head off
oh, bite my head off, oh bite my head off.
bite my head off, i don't want to
think about this anymore than you do...
don't turn around and replace me
just turn around and face the music.

© 2002 Michèle Lane lyrics and music

Bite My Head Off [2nd Mix]

I'm Red

All My Life: Solo singer/songwriter. aka Nobody You Know
2020 to Present: singer/guitar/bass/keys for Exploding Moons: SoundCloud.com/explodingmoonsla
2017 to 2019: Surf Rock/Indie/Sound Design for Film & Television: Mono Onno
2012 to 2016: Keys and Vox for The Carrions.
2007-2009 rhythm guitar/vox for The Little Debbies [Orlando, FL] https://youtu.be/pKPpEQnIOws?si=fX2IHl42cdvgjKnr
2001-2007 guitar/sitar/keys/vox Troubled Children

Wish I could follow more artists on here. I don't get why they have the limitation.

&hearts; &hearts; &hearts;

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