Tag: singer in the king’s service

words and music by Doug Howell (3 Feb 1978) I haven’t got no four-piece bandto accompany me across the landI ain’t no comedianat times I’m hard to understandI’m not gonna fool you, I’m no hockey playerand I sure ain’t no big word sayerI’m just from the run of the millI’m just an ordinary old taxpayer,…

words by Joe Becker, music by Doug Howell (31 Jan 1978) I want to be real with youtouch your heartand tell you all my feelings truelet you know just who I amand what I like to doall I really want to do is to bereal with you I need someone to tell my secrets tosomeone…

words and music by Doug Howell (2 Sep 1976) why do we pretend to hold Your lifein forms that just can’t bend?we just maintainhow can we confine the good, good newsto names on dotted lines?it’s such a strainif we could only take downall the umbrellas we have builtwe could receive His latter rain now Jesus,…

words and music by Doug Howell (31 Aug 1976) ah, Falling Star,You fill my eyes with such surpriseand the sky seemsmore empty than before when You’re gone oh, how You shine!You can break right throughthis darkness of mineoh, how You shine!You can take awaythis darkness of mine ah, Morning Star,You fill the night with such…

words and music by Doug Howell (11 Nov 1975) how can you look without seeing?your eyes look at me almost every dayand yet you never see menot the real methat lives behind my eyesyou never let your eyestouch mine for very longyou know that touch couldmake us so strongtell me—would touching be so wrong? how…

music adapted from “Recitative and song,” Dido and Aeneas, by Henry Purcell, words by Doug Howell (17 Oct 1971) sometimes I see people crowding byin sorrow they diein sadness they cryand follow after a lie when the whole world cries outin torment and despairhow can I stop the pain?Lord, hear me and help me to…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…