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 climb down to be set free
she took me in again


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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

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 rules back again

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once i stood to lose her
and i saw what i had done

bowed down and threw away the hours
of her garden and her sun


so i tried to want her
i turned to see her weep
40 days and 40 nights

and its still coming down on me

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