Soulshine
by Warren Haynes

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When you can't find the light, that got you through the cloudy days,
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When the stars ain't shinin' bright, you feel like you've lost you're way,
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When those candle lights of home, burn so very far away,
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Well you got to let your soul shine, just like my daddy used to say.

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He used to say soulshine, it's better than sunshine,
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It's better than moonshine, damn sure better than rain.
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Hey now people don't mind, we all get this way sometime,
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Got to let your soul shine, shine till the break of day.

I grew up thinkin' that I had it made, gonna make it on my own.
Life can take the strongest man, make him feel so alone.
Now and then I feel a cold wind, blowin' through my achin' bones,
I think back to what my daddy said, he said "Boy, in the darkness before the dawn:"

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Sometimes a man can feel this emptiness,
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Like a woman has robbed him of his very soul.
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A woman too, God knows, she can feel like this.
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And when your world seems cold, you got to let your spirit take control.

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