Shine What You Got

By Jeff Rolfzen & Rocky Steen-Rolfzen


When you’ve been placed in unfortunate ways

With ambitions unfeasible blue

When your heart feels like a dark catacomb

that apparitions of sorrow call home

Don’t you fret about tomorrow it’ll come no matter what I’m sure you know

You can lift your weary spirit though you may not want to hear it

You can raise your mood with a tune


When hope feels out of reach though to your heart it seems

It’s just illusions fading behind you

Don’t need rescuing, just need rest and peace

And a little time to ease a restless mind

Didn’t you know

Didn’t it show

Somebody has been there before

You don’t always know

Where to go, or what you are in for

The sky may be grey

But sunshine and starlight are all the same

Whether you’re near or far away

You gotta shine what you got even if it’s just a little flame


And when trouble comes

A knocking at my door

I remember these words I heard before

When you feel out of place

And you’re afraid to face

All the troubles you have gathered around you

Don’t need wallowing

Just need ways to see

How the sunshine always seems to surround you


Didn’t you know

Didn’t it show

Somebody has been there before

You don’t always know

Where to go, or what you are in for

The sky may be grey

But sunshine and starlight are all the same

Whether you’re near or far away

You gotta shine what you got even if it’s just a little flame

And when trouble comes

A knocking at my door

I remember these words I heard before

When sorrow seems to stay 

Wisps your size away

And you can’t find the feelings to mend you

Don’t need company

Don’t need comforting

Just let teardrops change to raindrops in a cloud

Didn’t you know

Didn’t it show

Somebody has been there before

You don’t always know

Where to go, or what you are in for

The sky may be grey

But sunshine and starlight are all the same

Whether you’re near or far away

You gotta shine what you got even if it’s just a little flame

Bah bah da bah da bah da bah bah

You gotta shine what you got even if it’s just a little flame.