Tag: i’ve been freed

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 through and throughthen even though You’re who You areYou love me like You do and…

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 a difference in the way I feel today I can see the love light fading…

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 and say“It’s brighter than it seems!” Jesus is enough to make me smilethe light of…

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 end would beand now I know what He must have saidas He gave His life…

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 that you can seem to feel is badso badHis love will show the waywhen those…