When I walk beside her, I am a 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 a pin of charm, she just throws it back at me Once I dug in her 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 When I go to cross that river, she is comfort by my side When I try to understand, she just opens up her hands Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh 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 flew 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 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 Oh, there's a big, a big hard sun beating on the big people In the big hard world In the big hard world