When you can't find the lightnThat guides you through a cloudy daynWhen the stars ain't shinin' brightnAnd it feels like you've lost your waynWhen the candlelights of homenBurn so very far awaynYeah, you got to let your soul shinenJust like my daddy used to saynnHe used to say SoulshinenIt's better than sunshinenIt's better than moonshinenIt's damn sure better than rainnWell now people don't mindnWe all feel this way sometimesnGot to let your soul shinenShine till the break of daynnLet me tell you thisnI grew up thinkin' that I had it madenGonna make it on my ownnLife can take the strongest mannAnd make him feel so alonenNow and then I feel a cold windnBlowin' through my achin' bonesnI think back to what my daddy saidnHe said Boy, in the darkness before the dawnnnLet your soul shinenIt's better than sunshinenI know it's better than moonshnenDamn sure better than rainnPeople now, don't you mindnWe all feet this way sometimesnYou gotta let your soul shinenShine till the break of daynnSometimes a man can feel this emptinessnLike a woman has robbed him of his very soulnA woman too, God knows, she can feel like thisnAnd when your world seems coldnYou got to let your spirit take control, that's why I tell yannTalkin' 'bout soulshinenIt's better than sunshinenBetter than moonshinenIt's damn sure better than rainnWell now people don't mindnWe all feel this way sometimesnGot to let your soul shinenYeah, shine on and on and on and onnnI said it's better than sunshinenIt's better than moonshinenIt's damn sure better than rain (hear me now, hear me now)nWell now people don't mind (don't you mind)nWe all feel this way sometimes ('cause we all get this way sometimes)nGot to let your soul shinenShine till the break of day