Brighter Days

Don't stop even for the right thing

Does it matter what I say?

My whole world was by that river

Flowing off to meet the sea each day

I don't want to move away

You look at me and you say "what's wrong boy?"

What else do you want me to say?

I don't want to leave tomorrow

Been and gone but I belong here now

Your big world can wait another day

Brighter days where did they go?

I am hopeful for where I'm going

But I belong in The South

That was where I was born a poor boy

Living life like there's no end in sight

Even so I've done without

Brighter days where did they go?

Boy, you're about to hit the bottom

I feel alone, I feel I'm moving there

To a land you never saw and I see you're about to hit the bottom

Lord help me move away to a land you never saw

And I've seen

Brighter days where did they go?