Hard sun
G - D - G - D (2x)
D C
1. When I walk beside her I am the better man,
G D
when
I look to leave her, I always stagger back again.
D C
Once I built an ivory tower, so
I could worship from above,
G
D
when
I climb down to be set free she took me in again.
D Am
There's a big, big hard sun,
G D
beating on the big people in the big
hard world.
D C
2. When she comes to greet me, she is mercy at my feet,
G D
when
I see her pin her charm, she just throws it back at me.
D C
Once I dug an early grave to
find a better land,
G D
she
just smiled and laughed at me and took her bruise back again.
D Am
There's a big, big hard sun,
G D
beating on the big people in the big
hard world.
+ repeat CHORUS + D ~
D C
3. When I go to cross that river, she is comfort by my side,
G D
when
I try to understand, she just opens up her hands.
+ D - C - G
- D
(2x)
D Am
There's a big, big hard sun,
G D
beating on the big people in the big
hard world.
+ D ~
D C
4. Once I stood to lose her, when I saw what I had done,
G D
bound
down and flew away, the hours of her garden and her sun.
D C
So I tried to warn her, I
turned to see her weep,
G D
40 days and 40 nights, and it's still coming down on me.
D Am
There's a big, big hard sun,
G D
beating on the big people in the big
hard world.
+ repeat CHORUS (6x)
....
(orig. = capo 1st) (Eddie Vedder, from “Into The Wild”)