When I walk beside her I am the better man

When I look to leave her

I always stagger back againOnce 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

Oh, 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 hands

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

Bowed 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 a big hard world

Oh, there′s a big, a big hard sun

Beating on the big people

In the big hard world

Oh, there's a big, a big hard sun

Beating on the big people

In the big hard world

Oh, 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

Oh, 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...