When you can't find the light

That got you through the cloudy days,

When the stars ain't shinin' bright,

You feel like you've lost your way,

When those candle lights of home,

Burn so very far away,

Well you got to let your soul shine,

Just like my daddy used to say.


He used to say soul shine,

It's better than sunshine,

It's better than moonshine,

Damn sure better than rain.

Hey now people don't mind,

We all get this way sometimes,

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:"


Let your soul shine.

It's better than sunshine,

It's better than moonshine,

Damn sure better than rain.

Yeah now people don't mind,

We all get this way sometimes,

Gotta let your soul shine,

Shine 'till the break of day.


Sometimes a man can feel this emptiness,

Like a woman has robbed him of his very soul.

A woman too, God knows, she can feel like this.

And when your little world seems cold,

You got to let your spirit take control.


Let you soul shine,

It's better than sunshine,

It's better than moonshine,

Damn sure better than rain.

Lord now people don't mind,

We all get this way sometimes,

Gotta let your soul shine, Shine till the break of day.


Oh, it's better than sunshine,

It's better than moonshine,

Damn sure better than rain

Yeah now people don't mind,

We all get this way sometimes,

Gotta let your soul shine,

Shine 'till the break of day.