**NOTE: THIS SONG BASICALLY IS PLAYED USING 2 SETS OF CHORD PROGRESSIONS OR RIFFS. THE WHOLE SONG CONSISTS OF THE CHORDS: PLAYED WITH DIFFERENT STRUMMING PATTERNS. (RIFF 1) (RIFF 2) / INTRO: RIFF 1 -- 4x’s VERSE: The fields of Eden ? (RIFF 2) Are full of trash ? (RIFF 2) And if we beg and we borrow and steal ? (RIFF 2) We’ll never get it back ? (RIFF 2) People are hungry ? (RIFF 2) They crowd around ? (RIFF 2) And the city ? (RIFF 2) Gets bigger as the country comes begging to town ? (RIFF 2) Chorus: Stuck between a rock ? (RIFF 1) ?(RIFF 1) And a hard place ?(RIFF 1) Between a rock ?(RIFF 1) ??(RIFF 2) -- 2x’s And a hard place VERSE: 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 Chorus 2: Stuck between a rock And a hard place Between a rock And a hard place ?(RIFF 1) You’d better stop ?(RIFF 1) Put on a kind face ?(RIFF 1) Between a rock ?(RIFF 1) And a hard place BREAK: 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 (RIFF 1) -- 6x’s Are playing loaded dice Chorus: ..... You’d better stop Give me the truth now } NOTE: Don’t want no sham } THIS PART MOSTLY I’d be hung } SUNG WITH DRUMS Drawn and quartered for a sheep } PLAYING. As well as a lamb } Chorus: FADE OUT: any questions comments or corrections e-mail me at:

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À propos de la chanson

Cette chanson aborde des thèmes forts, évoquant la lutte entre la réalité difficile et un idéal de liberté et de droits humains. Elle dépeint un monde où la pauvreté et le désespoir sont omniprésents, avec des gens pris au piège entre des choix difficiles, comme s'ils étaient coincés dans une situation sans issue. Les paroles soulignent l'injustice sociale et le contraste entre les discours sur la liberté et la souffrance des plus démunis. Dans un contexte de crise socio-économique, les images de villes en expansion et de campagnes délaissées nous rappellent la fracture entre les classes et les conséquences des conflits. La chanson invite à réfléchir sur notre humanité commune et la nécessité de faire preuve de compassion face aux épreuves des autres.