Eddie Vedder Hard Sun with Liam Finn, EJ and Jerry Hannan (Gordon Peterson) Lyrics

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 stay to pillage her
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
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
and when I saw what I had done
Burned down and threw away the hours
of her garden and her sun
So I tried to warn her
and turned to see her weep
Fourty days and fourty 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