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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
When I climbed down to be set free, she took me in again
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 inner 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
There's a big, a big hard sun
Beating on the big people
In the big hard world
There's a big, a big hard sun
Beating on the big people
In the big hard world
When I go to cross that river, she is comfort by my side
When I try to understand, she just opens up her hands
There's a big, a big hard sun
Beating on the big people
In the big hard world
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
There's a big, a big hard sun
Beating on the big people
In the big hard world
There's a big, a big hard sun
Beating on the big people
In the big hard world
There's a big, a big hard sun
Beating on the big people
In the big hard world
There's a big, a big hard sun
Beating on the big people
In the big hard world
There's a big, a big hard sun
Beating on the big people
In the big hard world
There's a big, a big hard sun
Beating on the big people
In the big hard world
There's a big, a big hard sun
Beating on the big people
In the big hard world
There's a big, a big hard sun
Beating on the big people
In the big hard world

The_Enemy Apr 24, 2013 - 06:52	Misterfixit wrote: Listening to this album whilst installed a Ununtu SMB Server system. Thinking about the lyrics and what is tells me about my fellow mankind. Just thinkin', not sayin' .. (cut'n'paste from http://africanhistory.about.com/od/glossaryu/g/Ubuntu.htm) Ubuntu is a Nguni word which has no direct translation into English, but is used to describe a particular African worldview in which people can only find fulfilment through interacting with other people. Thus is represents a spirit of kinship across both race and creed which united mankind to a common purpose. Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has said " Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language…It is to say. 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours'… " [ Reply ]
h0n0rb Apr 10, 2013 - 16:33	This version is fine, but the original has such a warm sound by comparison, and I think it has Joni Mitchell singing back up. [ Reply ]
justboy68 Jan 06, 2013 - 12:54	Love the song, Love the Film, Love Eddie Vedder. [ Reply ]
Misterfixit Jan 06, 2013 - 12:52	Listening to this album whilst installed a Ununtu SMB Server system. Thinking about the lyrics and what is tells me about my fellow mankind. Just thinkin', not sayin' .. [ Reply ]
cosmiclint Dec 31, 2012 - 10:16	WonderLizard wrote: For a long time I considered Vedder some stud with pipes that Pearl Jam hired 'cos they need a stud vocalist. Turns out he's also a songwriter of no mean talent. Great song. I agree, Eddie and the rest of Pearl Jam are great song writers, however this song was written by Gordon Peterson, who performed under the name Indio. The original version was a fairly big hit in Canada in the late 80s. I've stated earlier in this thread my opinion that Eddie stuck fairly close to the Indio version. In 2009, Peterson filed suit against Vedder, alleging changes made to the lyrics amounted to copyright infringement, and Universal music, alleging they had licensed his song to Vedder without permission. [ Reply ]
coccyx Dec 19, 2012 - 16:53	lattalo wrote: Saw this movie this weekend, had mixed emotions. It was a very well done movie, but I found it very sad. Alex Supertramp had some major issues that he needed help with, he was running to get away from the pain his parents had caused him. I think he died because he didn't understand how easy it is to die in the wilderness, not because he wanted to. When I was younger I would have a totally different opinion of this guy, but with age does come a little wisdom(thank God). The music in the movie was fantastic, however and the movie is well worth watching. thanks for the spoiler alert, dude [ Reply ]
coccyx Dec 19, 2012 - 16:52	Epic song in the context of a movie soundtrack but just to listen to? Needs to be about a minute shorter. As in cut out the last minute. [ Reply ]
WonderLizard Dec 19, 2012 - 16:49	For a long time I considered Vedder some stud with pipes that Pearl Jam hired 'cos they need a stud vocalist. Turns out he's also a songwriter of no mean talent. Great song. [ Reply ]
WonderLizard Dec 19, 2012 - 16:47	wingfinger wrote: Great cover. I highly recommend the Krakauer book on which the movie was based. The true tale is both an inspiration and a warning. Also recommend Krakauer's Into Thin Air about an ill-fated Everest expedition. Chilling (NPI) and difficult to put down. [ Reply ]
Easyrider Dec 06, 2012 - 03:56	Great album and movie! [ Reply ]
oilydwarf Dec 06, 2012 - 03:53	Godlike! [ Reply ]
Rebis Nov 04, 2012 - 18:45	This entire soundtrack is great. [ Reply ]
djengs Oct 04, 2012 - 10:31	Johnny_Wave wrote: Nobody in my hotel room can stand this song. A solid 2 Vegas sounds better. Ya'll dance some more, Rometuma! [ Reply ]
spiralarq Sep 16, 2012 - 10:07	I love the song! I lonve the movie!!! Great!! [ Reply ]
Johnny_Wave Sep 02, 2012 - 21:25	Nobody in my hotel room can stand this song. A solid 2 [ Reply ]
(former member) Sep 02, 2012 - 21:24	Everybody in my hotel room loves this song... [ Reply ]
Bosami Aug 02, 2012 - 10:35	I love. [ Reply ]
drsteevo Aug 02, 2012 - 10:34	I am detecting a Sun leitmotif. [ Reply ]
RipperP Aug 02, 2012 - 10:33	Okay, four sun-themed tunes in a row. Is it raining in RP-land? [ Reply ]
cosmiclint Jul 15, 2012 - 12:13	lily34 wrote: i love this song, and i hate pearl jam. go figure. This version is so faithful to the original, I would say you like this song because it's an Indigo song. BTW, appropriate song to play on a weekend that Earth is getting hammered by hot plasma ejections from the Sun. [ Reply ]