by The Allman Brothers
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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 s | hinin' bright, you fe | el like you've lost you're | way, |
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| When those | candle light of home, | burns 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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| I grew up thinkin' that I | had it made, | gonna make it on my | own. |
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| Life can take the | strongest man, | make him feel so | alone. |
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| Now and then I feel a | cold wind, | blowin' through my achin' | bones, |
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| I think back to what my | daddy said, he said " | Boy, in this darkness | before the |
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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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