Guitar chords Hard Sun

Hard Sun was originally written and performed by Gordon Peterson under the name Indio on the 1989 album Big Harvest. Eddie Vedder, the lead singer of Pearl Jam, covered the song for the soundtrack of the movie Into the Wild in 2007. Vedder came across the song while searching for material for the soundtrack and felt its lyrics aligned with the themes of isolation and connection to nature explored in the film. Vedder’s version received positive at ... See more [+]

Key:  D
D
 
When I walk beside her
  
C
 
I am the better man
G
 
When I look to leave her
        
D
 
I always stagger back again
D
 
Once I built an Ivory tower
     
C
 
so I could worship from above
G
 
When I climbed down to be set free
    
D
 
She took me in again

D
 
There's a big
           
Am
 
A big hard sun
                   
G
 
Beatin' on the big people
                
D
 
In the big hard world

D
 
When she comes to greet me
       
C
 
She is mercy at my feet
G
 
When I see her pin her charm
        
D
 
She just throws it back at me
D
 
Once I dug an early grave
   
C
 
To find a better land
G
 
She just smiled and laughed at me
         
D
 
And took her bruise back again

D
 
There's a big
           
Am
 
A big hard sun
                   
G
 
Beatin' on the big people
                
D
 
In the big hard world
D
 
There's a big
           
Am
 
A big hard sun
                   
G
 
Beatin' on the big people
                
D
 
In the big hard world

D
 
When I go to cross that river
         
C
 
She is comfort by my side
G
 
When I try to understand
D
 
She just opens up her hands

D
 
There's a big
           
Am
 
A big hard sun
                   
G
 
Beatin' on the big people
                
D
 
In the big hard world

D
 
Once I stood to lose her
       
C
 
When I saw what I had done
G
 
Bound down and threw away the hours
       
D
 
Of her garden and her sun
D
 
So I tried to warn her
  
C
 
I turned to see her weep
G
 
40 days and 40 nights
         
D
 
And it's still coming down on me

D
 
There's a big
           
Am
 
A big hard sun
                   
G
 
Beatin' on the big people
                
D
 
In the big hard world
D
 
There's a big
           
Am
 
A big hard sun
                   
G
 
Beatin' on the big people
                
D
 
In the big hard world