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

When I climbed down to be set

free, she took me in again

There's a big, a big hard sun

Beating 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 bitter charm,

she just throws it back at me

Once I dug 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

Beating on the big people

In the big hard world

There's

a big, a big hard sun

Beating 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 threw away the

hours of her garden and her sun

So I tried to warn her,

I turned to see her weep

Forty days and forty nights and

it's still coming down on me

There's a big, a big hard sun

Beating on the big people

In the big hard world

There's a big, a big hard sun

Beating on the big people

In the big hard world

There's a big, a big hard sun

Beating on the big people

In the big hard world

There's a big, a big hard sun

Beating on the big people

In the big hard world

There's a big, a big hard sun

Beating on the big people

In the big hard world

There's a big, a big hard sun

Beating on the big people

In the big hard world

There's a big, a big hard sun

Beating on the big people

In the big hard world

There's a big, a big hard sun

Beating on the big people

In the big hard world

There's a big, a big hard sun

Beating on the big people

In the big hard world