Listen and Love
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Kiss the Old Romantic Goodbye
words & music by Doug Howell (25 Oct 1978) © 2019 Creative Measures I could write a bookI could go downtownI could take in a movieand then just drive around I could make a speechto the bedroom wallon the risk…
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The Love You Must Have Had
words & music by Doug Howell (1973) © 1980 Love’s Music, assigned to Creative Measures Sheet music available! Vocal-Piano-Guitar Lord, to think You came down herereally makes me wonderwhy we go on the way we dohurting one anotherit just don’t…
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The Lord’s Prayer (St. Barnabas Mass)
music by Doug Howell (Spring 2014) • © 2015 Creative Measures LLCadapted from the Book of Common Prayer (1979), Rite 2, Eucharistic Prayer B Sheet music available! Vocal-Piano-Guitar Our Father,who art in heaven,holy is your name.Your kingdom come,your will be…
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The Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
words & music by Doug Howell (Summer, 1985) all you want to hear is a sweet songyou don’t want to hear from mejust three short, painless minutesand a hook that’s hotcrossover Christianitybut tell me, where’s the sacrificewhen we always keep…
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Blair
words & music by Doug Howell (22 Oct 1979) Blair, I was used to playing solitairebut you caught all my defenses unawareand my feelings long since fallen into disrepairbut you made me feel like a millionaire how I hate the…
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Hollywood
words & music by Doug Howell (Sep 1981) walking down the boulevardthe eyes so hurtin’, flirtin’ and hardyou’re utilized and tossed aside each momentand bit by bit enamored by all the trumped up glamouryour greed begins expanding by exponent you…
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Can’t Feel It Anymore
words & music by Doug Howell (4 Sep 1980) you telephonedhow can you sound so close, yet distantwe keep pretending time is nonexistentyou’re laughing like you used to dobut the most that I can seem to do issmile at the…
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According to Your Word
words & music by Doug Howell (28 May 1980) I’ve spent my whole liferunning away from painthinking it wasn’t your willalways asking questionsdemanding you explainnever hearing you say,“Be still.” let it be done to meaccording to your wordtill your love…
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Keep On
words & music by Doug Howell (5 Aug 1980) keep on, keep on drivingeven when the lights go outand you just can’t figure it outkeep on, keep on walkingwhen the darkness falls aroundand the circumstances confound you Jesus, did I…
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Where Could She Be?
words & music by Doug Howell (Apr 1982) if I’m meant to live my life aloneI know you’ll give me the strength to be on my ownknowing I’m your own is enough for mebut if there should be something more…
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Liar
words & music by Doug Howell (30 Oct 1978) yesterday at the fair you really took me for a rideyou said if I’d surrender you’d keep me satisfiedbut after just one time around it all came down the sameleaving me…
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Dweller by the Dark Stream
words & music by Doug Howell (Feb 1980) well-mannered, cool and calmly persuadingmyself that I am truly what I seem to bea beast of greed unbounded still is ragingbarely contained beneath the straining liturgythey joke of pain as if it…
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Let Go
words & music by Doug Howell (30 Oct 1978) let gowhy is it so hard just to let golet me give you all the good things that I’ve planneddo you believe that I love you?I know, I know all your…
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The Voice of My Beloved
Music by Doug Howell, lyrics by Hannah Hurnard (based on The Song of Solomon) the voice of my belovedthrough all my heart it thrillshe leaps upon the mountainsand skips upon the hillsfor like a roe or young hartso swift and…
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By Night on my Bed
Music by Doug Howell, lyrics by Hannah Hurnard (based on The Song of Solomon) by night on my bed I sought himhe whom my soul loveth soI sought but I could not find himand now I will rise and go…
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I Am the Rose of Sharon
Music by Doug Howell, lyrics by Hannah Hurnard (based on The Song of Solomon) I am the Rose of Sharona wild anemoneas lily ‘mong the thorn treesso is my love to me an apple tree ‘mong wild treesmy love is…
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The Closed Garden
Music by Doug Howell, lyrics by Hannah Hurnard (based on The Song of Solomon) a garden closed art thou, my lovewhere none thy fruits can tastea spring shut up, a fountain sealedan orchard run to waste awake, north wind, and…
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I’ll Turn My Hands Upon Thy Heart
Music by Doug Howell, lyrics by Hannah Hurnard (based on The Song of Solomon) I’ll turn my hands upon thy heartand purge away thy drossI will refine thee in my fireremake thee at my cross ℗ © 1983 Tyndale House…
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My Beloved
Music by Doug Howell, lyrics by Hannah Hurnard (based on The Song of Solomon) my beloved is the chiefestof ten thousand anywherehe is altogether lovelyhe is altogether fairmy beloved is so gentleand is strong beyond compare ℗ © 1983 Tyndale…
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Thou Art All Fair
Music by Doug Howell, lyrics by Hannah Hurnard (based on The Song of Solomon) thou art all fair, my dearest lovethere is no spot in theecome with me to the heights aboveyet fairer visions seeup to the mount of myrrh…