The Allman Brothers Band - 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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