Tag: album cut
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Up on the Roof
Lyrics by Gerry Goffin, Music by Carole King© Screen Gems – EMI Music, Inc. Note: Released as single in 2024 • Remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. When this old world starts getting me downAnd people are just too much for me to faceI climb way up to the top of…
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Speak Your Heart
words and music by Doug Howell • © 2021 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2021 • Remixed/remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. I’m not a poet you would knowFrom learned books, from memes or quotesSometimes I find it hard to speakThe truth of who you are to meIf I could just be me and you be youMaybe…
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No Strings
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2023 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2023 • Remastered and included in the album Everything I Am in 2025 I know it’s no goodTo hold on to each otherTo cling on and to smotherI know it’s no good Yes, I understandThat we are separate…
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There’s More
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2021 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2021 • Remixed/remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. What does it mean to be one With someone elseAll my life I’ve just been by myselfBut then you cameNow it’s not the sameThere’s so much…
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Nothing on You
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2023 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2023 • Remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. The stars have nothing on youOne silly grin can outshine themAnd in one glance I can findMuch more to wish upon The wind has nothing on…
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Amelia
words and music by Joni Mitchell • Published by SONY/ATV TUNES LLC OBO CRAZY CROW MUSIC • Released as single in 2021 • Remixed/remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. I was driving across the burning desertWhen I spotted six jet planesLeaving six white vapor trailsAcross the bleak terrainIt was the hexagram…
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Let’s Start Over
words & music by Chris Barton • © Christine A. Barton • Released as single in 2023 • Released 2025 in the album Everything I Am. It’s not so easyStarting on two sides of the streetEyes that fill with angerEvery time we meetWords as sharp as glassTo cut the heart right throughMeant for meBut I turn…
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Keep This Heart Tender
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2018 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2018 • Remixed/remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. I was hurryin’ down the sidewalkSo busy looking straight aheadI didn’t notice the sky or the leaves on the treesTill one floated down in front of…
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I Would Not Be Me (Without Your Love)
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2020 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2020 • Remixed/remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. Trees would still be treesEven if the sun didn’t shineThe sky would still be blueEven if the clocks did not keep timeJuly would follow JuneEven if…
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Oh, September
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2020 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2020; remixed/released in 2023 • Remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. Sheet music available! in F • in G Oh, SeptemberWhy’d you have to come so soonJust when I finally started to have some…
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A Song Without You in It
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2020 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2020 • Remixed/remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. I’m not gonna write aboutHow I used to feelWhen you’d reach out to meWon’t write about what used to beI’m not gonna sing anymore About love…
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Do You Ever Dream of Me?
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2022 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2022 • Remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. When I lay me down to sleepAnd pray the Lord my soul to keepI often think of you and weepAnd wonder what your dreams could beAnd…
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Hard To Get
words & music by Rich Mullins • © Curb Word Music/Liturgy Legacy • Released as single in 2023 • Remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. You who live in heavenHear the prayers of those of us who live on earthWho are afraid of being left by those we loveAnd who get…
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Everything I Am
words & music by Doug Howell • © 2015 Creative Measures LLC • Released as single in 2018 • Remixed/remastered in 2025 and included in the album Everything I Am. Sheet music available! Vocal-Piano-Guitar Everything I amEverything I’ve doneI pour it out to you, LordEverything that’s goodAnd everything that’s badI lay it down before you, Lord…
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All I Know
words & music by Jimmy Webb • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© Universal – Polygram International Pub Inc. Favorite version: Art Garfunkel, Angel Clare, 1973 I bruise you, you bruise mewe both bruise too easilytoo easily to let it showI love you, and that’s all I know all my plans are falling throughall my plans depend…
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Met Him on a Plane
(originally “Met Her on a Plane”) words/music by Jimmy Webb • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© Universal – Polygram International Pub Inc. Favorite version: Jimmy Webb, And So: On, 1971 met him on a planeI had forgotten I was made of glassI watched the cars and crows and cities passI watched the sun till I was…
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Simile
words/music by Jimmy Webb • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© Universal – Polygram International Pub Inc. Favorite version: Jimmy Webb, Letters, 1972 this is the answer to the letter unsentwhich even so arrived some years laterlike a song sometimes written for lovelong before it is alive oh, the poem sighed to sweet facescaught away from some…
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Shattered
words/music by Jimmy Webb • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© Universal – Polygram International Pub Inc. Favorite version: Linda Ronstadt, Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind, 1989 Notes Even though I love Ronstadt’s version of this, I’ve always thought it was too short. I guess I just love the song so much I never…
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Skywriter
words/music by Jimmy Webb • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© Universal – Polygram International Pub Inc. Favorite version: Jimmy Webb, Twilight Of The Renegades, 2005 Notes A friend helped me discover this song, for I had somehow missed it when it was first released. I love how the rootless, restless lyrics float over the rootless, restless…
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Wooden Planes
(aka “A Song for My Brother”) words/music by Jimmy Webb • arranged/performed by Doug Howell© Universal – Polygram International Pub Inc. Favorite version: B. J. Thomas, Billy Joe Thomas, 1972 Notes Speaking of flyin’ games, here’s another. Again we’re chasing after something unattainable. Again we think our flight will never end. It was the last…