Tag: the truth is stranger than fiction
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Oh, September
words & music by Doug Howell (6 Aug 1980) oh, Septemberwhy’d you have to come so soonjust when I finally started to have some funI remember wellthe spell of an August moonand I was just gettin used to livin in the sunlook what you’ve done,September summer’s warmth is gone nowthere’s that coolness in the airseems…
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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 Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
Description Now available in digital format only. Doug’s fourth solo album. More up tempo than any since his first. More experimentation with synthesized sounds (it was the 1980s). Edgy, like Bluer…, but with better production values. This was the first album not to include song notes in the original packaging. Total playing time – 52:47…