Edward Louis Severson III, más conocido como Eddie Vedder es el vocalista y uno de los compositores del grupo de Grunge estadounidense Pearl Jam desde 1990. Además, toca otros diversos instrumentos, incluyendo el ukelele, la guitarra, la batería o la armónica.
En 2007 Vedder lanzó su primer álbum en solitario como una BSO para la película Into the wild, del mismo año. En este álbum encontramos este tema Hard Sun que reproducimos de un cover en directo.
When I walk beside her
I am the better man
When I look to leave her
I always atagger 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
When she comes to greet me
She is mercy at my feet
When i see her (bitter) charm
She just throws it back again
Once I dug an early grave
To find a better land
She just smiled and laughed at me
And took her blues back again
When I go to cross that river
She is comfort by my side
When I try to understand
She just opens up her hands
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 warm 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