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ROLLING STONES LYRICS
ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
Recorded March thru June, 1989. Released on the album Steel
Wheels on Aug 28 (U.S.), 11 Sept (UK), 1989. Also released as a U.S. & UK single on Nov 13,
1989.
Lead Vocal: Mick Jagger
Electric
Guitars: Keith Richards, Ron Wood & Mick Jagger
Bass Guitar:
Bill Wyman Drums:
Charlie
Watts Keyboards: Matt Clifford & Chuck Leavell Brass: The
Kick Horns Background Vocals: Lisa Fischer,
Sarah Dash & Bernard Fowler
ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)
The fields of Eden
Are full of trash
And if we beg and we borrow and steal
We'll never get it back
People are hungry
They crowd around
And the city gets bigger as the country comes begging to town
We're stuck between a rock
And a hard place
Between a rock and a hard place
This talk of freedom
And human rights
Means bullying and private wars and chucking all the dust into our
eyes
And peasant people
Poorer than dirt
Who are caught in the crossfire with nothing to lose but their
shirts
Stuck between a rock
And a hard place
Between a rock and a hard place
You'd better stop put on a kind face
Between a rock and a hard place
We're in the same boat
On the same sea
And we're sailing south
On the same breeze
Guiding dream churches
With silver spires
And our rogue children
Are playing loaded dice
Give me truth now
Don't want no sham
I'd be hung drawn and quartered for a sheep just as well as a lamb
Stuck between a rock
And a hard place
Between a rock and a hard place
You'd better stop
Put on a kind face
Can't you see what you've done to me