Listen and Love
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Just To Think About You
words and music by Doug Howell (1 Aug 1973) just to think about You, Lordmakes me feel like singingand just to think that You still careit makes me feel like bringingall my love to Youand I dojust to know a love so true just to think how You have madethis empty life worth livingand just…
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Measuring the Distance
words and music by Doug Howell (25 Aug 1977) when I say you’re a part of meI’m not just making rhymethere’s a bond of love between usthat grows stronger with the timeI can feel your loving touchno matter where you areand I know you’re right here with methoug it seems so very farand I am…
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Bass Drum
words and music by Doug Howell (5 Jun 1976) if I was a bass drum, I would beat for Youand if I was a bird, You know, I’d tweet for Youif I was a lemon I’d be sweet for Youbut all that I can do is love Youoh, if I was a river, I would…
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Song
words and music by Doug Howell (28 May 1972) there are so many reasons in the worldto write songsbut You are the best reason I’ve gotand there’s so many songs in the worldto singI will sing the song You taught me let me sing this song for Youand then, Lord, when the song is throughteach…
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Thankful for the Sunshine
words and music by Doug Howell (24 Sep 1976) I’m thankful for the sunshineshining through the treesI’m thankful for the rainbowsthe blues and greens, and in-betweensI’m thankful for the moonbeamsand every dream come trueI’m thankful for the sparklein drops of morning dew but most of all I want to thank You forthe joy within my…
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Color in My Eyes
words and music by Doug Howell (18 Jan 1977) this morning when the sun rosethere was a rainbow in the clouds at the horizonit made a circle ’round the sunto warn the fleeing darknessa multicolored haloa ring to wed the weeping with the joy and when the night had brokenthe colors ran to take there…
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Every Sign on the Road
words and music by Doug Howell (19 Mar 1977) my heart is lyin’ in piecesall over the worldI can’t pass a sign on the roadwithout thinking of something I once heard“Don’t spread yourself too thin in life,or you’ll wind up all alone”I don’t know what you thinkbut it’s true for all I know every sign…
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Picture Show
words and music by Doug Howell (16 May 1973) and I’m just not safe anymoreI can’t go anywherebut there’s empty eyes and words and smilesand lives that never touchbut long to be touchedand I walked into a picture showI wanted to laughI just wanted to be uninvolved for a changeand then there you were how…
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Finally Found Love
words by Joe Becker, music by Doug Howell (3 Jan 1978) I’ve been looking for a personI can always turn to when I’m downlooking for someone who doesn’t carethat I’m a clownlooking for a special friend—like the one that I just found I’ve been searching for Jesus for so longit don’t seem realI’ve been searching…
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I Saw You in the Mountains
words and music by Doug Howell (14 Oct 1974) Jesus, I saw You todayin the mountainsYou spoke to mein fervent whispers of cool, sweet airYour trees were standing sentinelbelow the snowy heightswhile You spoke to me of greatnessand loveand condescension and I just sat in silencewhen I saw what You had madeand I wondered at…
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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 say and what I amthey seem to disagreewith me You know every time I thinkI’ve…
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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 into my worldYou gave me love I’d never knownYou sang me songs I’d never heardand…
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Victory in Jesus
Description NOTE: This album is currently available as YouTube playlist only (see below). Contemporary Christian music album by New Jerusalem, Lonnie Hull DuPont and Don Wharton. These SE Michigan-based artists regularly featured in area Youth for Christ rallies and sang at a great number of area churches, venues and events. This is the second of…
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Singer in the King’s Service
Description Now available in digital format only. A double-album, Doug’s third solo effort. Another improvement in production values, partly due to bigger budget (thanks to friends and family), and a longer format which allowed for a wide variety of songs. Lush orchestrations on many songs. Playing time: 72:25 Basics Produced by Michael G. Kuzma. Music,…
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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 stylecan’t we talk about somethingthat’s never gonna end? I just wanna talk about JesusI just…
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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 a noun to mebut just now it seems to meas if it should be something…
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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 when I was young I used to play hide and seekand I grew up hiding…
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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 seewhat they look likefrom the airthe problems seem so smalldon’t seem big at allfrom up…
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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 for your healing touch here am Ijust one lonely guythat don’t wanna hear no more…
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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 soul lived in a box in the citymy soul lived in a boxmost of the…