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

End up nothing to lose but their shirts, yeah

[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

[Bridge]

You'd better stop, yeah, give it all you got

Give me the 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

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?

Between a rock and a hard place (That's what I said)

Between a rock and a hard place (Yeah)

You'd better stop (Stop, yeah, you'd better stop)

Put on a kind face (Just a little smile)

Yeah, come on now, yeah

Between a rock and a hard place

Between a rock and a hard place

You'd better stop, put on a kind face

You'd better stop, put on a kind face

Between a rock and a hard place

Between a rock and a hard place