CAPO 1 [eight bars] 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 climb down to be set free, she took me in again There's a big, a big hard sun Beatin' on the big people, in a big hard world When she comes to greet me, she is mercy at my feet When I see her inner 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 rules back again There's a big, a big hard sun Beatin' on the big people, in a big hard world There's a big, a big hard sun Beatin' on the big people, in a big hard world [four bars] 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 Beatin' on the big people, in a big hard world [four bars] 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 40 days and 40 nights and it's still coming down on me There's a big, a big hard sun Beatin' on the big people, in a big hard world [Repeat 8 times and fade]
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