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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
And when I climbed down to be set free
she took me in again
Chorus
there's a big
A big hard sun
beaten on the big people
in the big hard world
END CHORUS
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
Chorus x2
When I go to cross that river
She is comfort by my side
When I try to understand
She just opens up her hands
Instrumental break
Chorus
Once I stood to lose her
And 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
40 days and 40 nights
and it's still coming down on me
CHORUS > fade