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 worshop from above   When I climb 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 a big hard world      When she comes to greet me   She is mercy at my feet   When I see her pin her 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 bruise back again      (CHORUS 2x)      When I go across 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 flew 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)