Gordon Peterson 1989
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
Chorus:
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
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
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