Eddie VedderHard SunInto The Wild Soundtrack

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 climbed down to be set free, she took me in again
[chorus:]
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 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 blues back again
[chorus 2x]
when I go to cross that river, she is comfort by my side
when I try to understand, she just opens up her hands
[chorus]
once I stood to lose her when I saw what I had done
bound 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 coming down on me
[chorus 8x]