Listen and Love
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So Far To Go
words and music by Doug Howell (23 Sep 1976) Your Book is like a mirror (oh, dear)and today I finally tooktook a good lookat myself—I looked at myselfthe very things I hated most in othersI saw today in mewhat I…
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Hallelujah, Jesus Loves Me
words and music by Doug Howell (7 Oct 1976) all my life I’ve lived alonethey just can’t seem to remember my nameI’d live and die—and still I’d be unknownguess there’s really no one else to blame but then You came…
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I Just Wanna Talk About Jesus
words & music by Doug Howell (19 Jul 1974)© 1976 Bud John Songs (orig Lexicon Music, Inc) • Used by permission don’t make me talk about weatherplease don’t make me talk about trendsand don’t ask my opinion of the latest…
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Daniel
words & music by Doug Howell (21 Mar 1973) thirteen inches of snow on the earthwhat better way to spend the daythan sitting alone in my room with the door shuttyping my life on sheets of paperlife has always been…
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Hide and Seek
29 Jan 1976 it’s so easy to hide the ugliness insidebeneath the clothes we wear, beneath the things we doI was always afraid I wouldn’t make the gradeso I learned to do the things I was expected toI never knew…
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Earthbound
words & music by Doug Howell (6 Dec 1973) if I couldI would stay above the cloudsabove the people and the citywhat a shamemost of them will stay earthboundand think that I’m the one to pity if they could only…
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Here I Am
words & music by Doug Howell (6 Feb 1975) here I amcrying againmy heart is breaking in twohere I standmy love in my handI’m ready to give it to you somehow I’m always expecting too muchand right now I long…
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I’ve Been Freed
words & music by Doug Howell (16 Nov 1974) I was raised in a box in the cityoh, noI was really raised in the country on an orcharda blossom-filled orchardbut my soul lived in a box in the cityyes, my…
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Drivin’ Down the Road Song (No. 1)
words & music by Doug Howell (19 Jul 1975) when You reach out your arms to meand take me to your heartI know that there will never bea time when we’re aparteach time I read your book I’m filledwith wonder…
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There’s a Difference (in the Way I Feel Today)
words & music by Doug Howell (3 Mar 1974) there’s a difference in the way I feel todayit’s not that I don’t know that you don’t love me like beforebut it just doesn’t hurt me like it used to anymorethere’s…
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Jesus Is Enough To Make Me Smile
words & music by Doug Howell (5 May 1975) lately I’ve been going through a rough, lonely timeI couldn’t get my eyes off of my dreamsbut even when my road becomes a long, hard climbHe’s there to take my hand…
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For You To Live
words & music by Mark Minor and Doug Howell (22 Oct 1975) life holds no fearwhen in death there is victorythere’s no need to shed a fearwhen I think what Jesus did for mebefore Pilate’s mockeryHe could see what the…
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Blessed Be His Name
words & music by Doug Howell (20 Mar 1976) blessed be His nameglory to His nameJesus holds all things in His handlet us praise His holy name (repeat chorus) even in our darknesswe know His love won’t failwhen the best…
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Life Is Like a Melody
words & music by Doug Howell (7/73) Life is like a melodyrhythm and rhyme and harmonysweet and simple sunshine melodysince he came into my lifebad times are gonegood times have arrivedand life with him is like a melody it’s such…
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Brother
words & music by Doug Howell (10/73) brotherI have written so many songsin my daybut you know I’d givethem all away if I could onlyfind a simple wayto make you understandhow I feel today brotheryou know I felt just like…
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It’s a Pity
words & music by Doug Howell (7/73) it’s a pityyou say you can’t finda good enough reasonto believe anymoreit’s such an artthe way you’ve learnedyourself to close your eyesto the answersyou once searched for you’ve got it all worked out…
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I Wanna Spend Time with You
words & music by Doug Howell (12/73) I wanna spend time with younot just a moment or twonot just a year or a fewI wanna live life with you there are so few times in lifewhen people really liveand there…
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Bluer Than It’s Ever Been
words & music by Doug Howell (6/73) my world just used to turn aroundand even when it hurtit really didn’t seemto slow down muchbut you know when I met youyou stopped it coldand all I knew is it feltlike I…
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Love That Comes Too Late
words & music by Doug Howell (8/72) last night on the roadthere was a guy thumbin’ a rideand I said, “Lord, I’d pick him up,but I’ve gotta get where I’mgoin’ on time.” I said,“Can’t it wait ’till tomorrowwhen I’ve got…
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With You Beside Me
words & music by Doug Howell (1/74) with you around it all seems newI don’t know what to sayor what to doand deep within my heartI always knew thatsomeday I would love youand why you love the likesof me I’ll…