Gordon Peterson Hard Sun

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
And when I climbed down to be set free
She took me in again

There's a big, a big hard sun
Beatin' 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
Beatin' on the big people
In the big hard world

There's a big, a big hard sun
Beatin' on the big people
In the big hard world

And 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 (There's a big, big hard sun)
Beatin' on the big people (On the people)
In the big hard world (Hard world, yes it is)

Once I stood to lose her
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
Forty days and forty nights
And it's still coming down on me (oh, yes it is)

There's a big, a big hard sun (There's a big, big hard sun)
Beatin' on the big people
In the big hard world

There's a big, a big hard sun (Big hard sun)
Beatin' on the big people
In the big hard world

There's a big, a big hard sun (There's a big)
Beatin' on the big people (On the people)
In the big hard world

There's a big, a big hard sun (There's a big, big hard sun)
Beatin' on the big people
In the big hard world

There's a big, a big hard sun (Hard world, hard world)
Beatin' on the big people (On the big people)
In the big hard world

There's a big, a big hard sun (There's a big, big hard sun)
Beatin' on the big people
In the big hard world