when I walk beside her   i am the better man   when I look to leave her   I always stagger back again   once I built an ivory tower   so I could worship from above   and when I climbed down to be set free   she took me in again      there's a big   a big hard sun   beaten on the big people   in the big hard world      when she comes to greet me   she is mercy at my feet   when I see her pin her charm   she just throws it back at me   once I sought an early grave   to find a better land   she just smiled and laughed at me   and took her blues back again      there's a big   a big hard sun   beaten on the big people   in the big hard world      there's a big   a big hard sun   beaten on the big people   in the big hard world      when I go to cross that river   she is comfort by my side   when I try to understand   she just opens up her hands      there's a big   a big hard sun   beaten on the big people   in the big hard world      once I stood to lose her   when I saw what I had done   bound down and flew away the hours   of her garden and her sun   so I tried to warn her   i'll turn to see her weep   40 days and 40 nights   and it's still coming down on me      there's a big   a big hard sun   beaten on the big people   in the big hard world      there's a big   a big hard sun   beaten on the big people   in the big hard world      there's a big   a big hard sun   beaten on the big people   in the big hard world      there's a big   a big hard sun   beaten on the big people   in the big hard world