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Rock and a Hard Place
Rock and a Hard Place
B-side: Cook Cook Blues
Format: CD, 7
Released: 4 November 1989
Recorded: March-June, 1989
Genre: Rock
Length: 5:25
Label: Rolling Stones
Writer: Jagger/Richards
Producer: Chris Kimsey, The Glimmer Twins
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Lyrics
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're doing to me

Personnel
Lead Vocals: Mick Jagger
Electric Guitars: Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Mick Jagger
Bass: Bill Wyman
Drums: Charlie Watts
Keyboards: Matt Clifford and Chuck Leavell
Brass: The Kick Horns
Background Vocals: Lisa Fischer, Sarah Dash and Bernard Fowler

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