[Verse 1]
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

[Chorus]
There's a big, a big hard sun
Beatin' on the big people
Ooh, in a big hard world

[Verse 2]
When she comes to greet me she is mercy at my feet
And I, 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 rules back again

[Chorus]
There's a big, a big hard sun
Beatin' on the big people
In a big hard world
Oh, there's a big, a big hard sun
Beatin' on the big people
Ooh, in a big hard world

[Verse 3]
When I go to cross that river, she is comfort by my side
When I try to understand, she just opens up her hands
[Harmonizing Break]

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

[Verse 4]
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 comin' down on me

[Chorus]
There's a big, a big hard sun
Beatin' on the big people
Ooh, in a big hard world
Ah, there's a big, a big hard sun
Beatin' on the big people
Ooh, in a big hard world
Oh, there's a big, a big hard sun
Beatin' on the big people
Ooh, in a big hard world
Oh, there's a big, a big hard sun
Beatin' on the big people
In a big hard world
Oh, 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
[Outro]
(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)