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

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 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

Beating 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 eyes

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

When I walk beside her I am the better man

When I look to leave her I always stagger back again