The Rolling Stones — Rock and a Hard Place Live 1990

[Spoken Word: Mick Jagger] Yea, we're gonna do some new songs for you. We're gonna keep it going. This one's called "Rock and a Hard Place." [Verse 1] 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 [Chorus] We're stuck between a rock And a hard place Between a rock And a hard place [Verse 2] 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 ended nothing to lose but their shirts That's right [Chorus] We're 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 [Verse 3] We're in the same boat On the same sea And we're sailing south On the same breeze Building dream churches With silver spires And our rogue children Are playing loaded dice [Guitar Solo] [Bridge] You'd better stop Come on down with me, oh yeah Give me truth now Don't want no shame I'd be hung, drawn, and quartered for a sheep Just as well as a lamb [Outro] Stuck between a rock And a hard place Between a rock and a hard place You'd better stop Put on a kind face Ooh yeah Can't you see what you've done to me 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 Yeah [Outro] Between a rock and a hard place Between a rock and a hard place Between a rock And that's alright Between a rock and a hard place Between a rock and a hard place Between a rock and a hard place Between a rock [Audience Applause]