Someone to care
someone to share
lonely hours and moments of despair
to be loved, to be loved
oh what a feeling to be loved

Someone to kiss
someone to miss
when you're away
to hear, from each day
to be loved( to be loved)
to be loved (to be loved)
oh what a feeling to be loved

Some wish to be a king or a queen
some wish for fortune and fame
but to be, truly, truly, truly loved is
more than all of these things

Someone to kiss
someone to miss
when you're away to hear, from each day
to be loved, to be loved, to be loved
oh what a feeling to be loved
to be loved (to be loved)
to be loved (to be loved)
oh baby, what a feeling
to be loved

"To Be Loved" Jackie Wilson Ukulele Cover by M. L. Swensen

It won't happen
not the way that you had planned
you won't ever go back there
and it's over
as far as I can see, my dear
there is no one and no love left

Still you love ,you love, you love
Still you love, you love, you love
Still you love, you love. you love
just in my case it wasn't enough

You don't have to
and I won't be there to say
that "I love you"
or "you need to"....
well I won't be
And you won't do
well I want you 
to go back to 
the place where you came from 
and stay there 
away from me

So I can love, and love, and love, and love, and love
So I can love, and love, and love, and love, and love
So I can love, and love, and love, and love, and love
Except in your case it never was enough.

And the love was never enough to hold...

Still you love, you love, you love, you love, you love
Still you loved, you loved, you loved, you loved, you loved

"Oscillating Wildly" Acoustic Original by M.L. Swensen

Here is a new one! a collaboration with EA Bannon; and a damn fine one at that! enjoy! EDM fans will appreciate this, I hope! (Photo by EA Bannon)


 I am not your home...

You were always full of promises
The kind that keeps a heart lingering
And we went on like that forever
Me hanging on to every word

I hoped I would see you in the morning 
But I laid in that empty bed
Your feet tread softly on the floor boards
While I rested my tired head

Love is a tired restless thing
Every glance, each failed advance
I would rather leave this world alone
Don't wander back 
I am not your home 

The dark night sky will illuminate this room
Ignite the empty spaces of you 
I'd sooner trust the changing winds
Then any word you ever spoke


Yeah, I  believe in solace 
Let go of every promise 
Stale bread and warm wine 
Anything to ease you from my mind 

Love is a tired restless thing
Every glance, each failed advance
I would rather leave this world alone
Don't wander back 
I am not your home

And I will leave you standing there 
Missing dearly, my violet hair 
You are the one who is alone
Don't wander back 
I am not your home

I was never your home.

"I Am Not Your Home" Music and Melody by ML Swensen Lyrics by EA Bannon

This Mazzy Star song is probably one of my favorite songs ever....hope I did it justice. dedicated to MJ. She always loved the song and the odd way I sang it. 

I want to hold the hand inside you
I want to take a breath that's true
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth
You live your life
You go in shadows
You'll come apart and you'll go blind
Some kind of night into your darkness
Colors your eyes with what's not there.

Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew

A stranger's light comes on slowly
A stranger's heart without a home
You put your hands into your head
And then smiles cover your heart

Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew

Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think it's strange you never knew
I think it's strange you never knew


"Beach Town Burlesque" Music and Melody by ML Swensen with Lyrics by Nicolle Mirabella

Here's a new one that I hope you like. I will be announcing some new live dates for September so stay tuned! 

"Don't Sink In" New Original By ML Swensen

Here is an original song for your enjoyment!

Proximity by ML Swensen

Cause when you were standing near
I seemed to lose 
lose all fear
and I could conquer anything
and I just can't help but sing
every time that you walk with me

Cause when you were standing near
I seemed to lose all fear
and I could conquer anything
I just can't help but sing 
all the time that you walked by me

I will go on and on like that you will see 
there is no one who could be 
what you'll be 
when you see me leave

Cause when you were standing near we seemed to lose all fear
and we could conquer anything
we couldn't help but sing
all the times that you stand by me

I will go on and on like that you see 
its no use
I can never leave this room 
there is nothing for me 
when once 
there was everything

"Proximity" Ukulele Original By ML Swensen

One day, this past spring, I was lying on a rock strewn beach with some friends and composed this little uke ditty. 

PS no birds were harmed in the making of this song. 


"Target Rock" (live)Ukulele Original By MLSwensen

"Get out of Love" Original Acoustic Song by M.L.Swensen

Just get out of love
Just let go of it
If you value your life or your sanity 
don't be afraid then to just call it quits
Just get out of love
Just get over it
no one ever gets enough anyway
or if they do they always feel so sick
Just when you think you have the answers; you don't
If you think you'll avoid disasters; you won't
So, if you are gonna act 
then you need to do it fast, or else!
or else this love is gonna last!

Just get out of love
RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN!
A false overarching principle, wouldn't ya say?
that every civilized society should ban!

Just get out of love
Don't let yourself get bit
It's either vacant or it's way too much to take
either way you'll end up drowning in it!
Just when you think you have the answers; you don't
If you think you'll avoid disasters; you won't
So if you are gonna act
then you need to do it fast, or else!
Or else true love is gonna last!

You know you oughtta' leave it!
before it's gone
but in order to achieve this
you need to RUN!
Please don't let yourself believe this!
....but if you are gonna act 
then you need to do it fast or else 
or else true love is gonna last

Just get out of love
Just get over it!
Trust me, another one is waiting in the wings
to scoop your heart out 
and then make mud pies with it

Just when you think you have the answers; you don't
if you think you'll avoid disasters; you won't
unless you want love to be your master 
you need to bolt!
well if you are gonna act 
then you need to do it fast or else
or else true love is gonna last!

Original Love Song By MLSwensen


Get Out Of Love (Siren Mix) Original By ML Swensen

Did this little ukulele cover of one of my all time favorite Fleet Foxes songs. "Montezuma" Live at Target Rock. Enjoy! 

'Montezuma" Fleet Foxes Cover by MLSwensen

A small nod to the lucky appendicitis positive peeps of the world! Keep on truckin! Love, ML Swensen

Appendix -Ukulele Original by Michael Lawrence Swensen

It has been 30 years since the creation of my all time favorite 4 piece band from Manchester England. This was the final track off the final studio release and it is a gorgeous song! Enjoy!

"I Won't Share You" by The Smiths (uke cover by Michael Lawrence Swensen)

I love this song so I hobbled through it! hope you love it too!

Maybe I will play it at my birthday show if enough people ask for it!

I hear you're driving
Someone else's car now...
She said you came and
Took your stuff away -
All the poetry, and the trunk
You kept your life in -
I knew that it would
Come to that someday...
Like a sad hallucination,
When I opened up my eyes,
The train had passed the station,
And you were trapped inside...
Yet I never wonder where you went,
I only wonder why,
I wonder why...

Oh Caroline
Oh, whoa-oh Caroline
Oh, oh Caroline
Whoa whoa whoa, Caroline

Well I hear you're using someone else's number;
She said she saw you in the store today.
It doesn't matter whose address
You're listed under,
I only know they'll never make you stay.
Like a memory in motion,
[- From: http://www.elyrics.net -]
You were only passing through...
That is all you've ever known of life,
That's all you'll ever do.
There's a dream I have where I sail away;
Looking back I wave at you,
And I wave goodbye...

Oh Caroline
Oh, oh whoa oh, Caroline
Oh, oh Caroline
Oh

In another life I see you
As an angel flying high,
And the hands of time will free you -
You will cast your chains aside -
And the dawn will come and kiss away
Every tear that's ever fallen
From your eyes...
Behind those eyes,
I wonder

Oh, Caroline... oh, oh, oh...
Oh, oh... Caroline...
Sometimes I wonder...
Oh... Caroline
Sometimes I,
Sometimes I wonder...



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