Tag: album cut
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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 things nicefollowing some formula conformityyou say you’re protecting someone elsebut it’s really just yourselfwho can’t…
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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 thought of leaving nowhow I wish that I could stay somehowbut I will always remember…
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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 take refuge in the numbers gameforget your honor, despise your name,you settle in behind your…
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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 illusions I had plannedcause now I hold your laughter in my handsomehow it’s lost 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 flows through meinto this dying worldcan’t shut my eyes to all I’ve seendeny what I…
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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 love your blessingsmore than I loved youJesus, take away your blessingsstill I will love you…
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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 to your planthan I can see from where I standand if there should be one…
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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 to hate myself for playing in your game liar, liaryou really took me for a…
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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 were so distantI laugh along, a desperate play for comedybut if they knew my most…
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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 dreamsbut do you know I’ve got some dreams for youcan you trust me to make…
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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 strong is hehe looketh through my windowand beckoneth to me rise up, my love, my…
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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 out in the streets of the cityand out on the broad highwayfor he whom my…
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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 in my sightI sit down in his shadowhis fruit is my delight he brought me…
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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 blow, thou southblow on my garden fairthat all the spices may flow outas perfume on…
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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 Publishers, Inc. and Eden Records, assigned to Creative Measures. The title Hinds’ Feet On High…
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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 House Publishers, Inc. and Eden Records, assigned to Creative Measures. The title Hinds’ Feet On…
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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 and thenceacross the hills of frankincenseto where the dawn’s clear innocencebids all the shadows flee…
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How Lovely, How Nimble
Music by Doug Howell, lyrics by Hannah Hurnard (based on The Song of Solomon) how lovely, how nimble, are thy feetO prince’s daughterthey sparkle and flash and can run more fleetthan running wateron all the mountains there is no gazelleno roe or hindcan o’ertake thee nor leap as wellbut lag behind thy joints and thighs…
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O Where Is Thy Beloved Gone?
Music by Doug Howell, lyrics by Hannah Hurnard (based on The Song of Solomon) oh, where is thy beloved gonethou fairest among womenwhere dost thou think he as turned asidethat we may seek him with thee he is gone down into the gardento the beds of spices sweetfor he feedeth among the liliestis there we…
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I Am My Love’s
Music by Doug Howell, lyrics by Hannah Hurnard (based on The Song of Solomon) I am my love’s and he is mineand this is his desirethat with his beauty I may shinein radiant attireand this will be when all of meis pruned and purged with fire come, my beloved, let us goforth to the waiting…