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Street Fighting Man Technique
Great lyrics move us like the world's best poems. Take a close-up look at the art.
Music
This song seems surprisingly upbeat for its subject matter. It almost sounds playful – this is no Clash singing about an imminent apocalypse, even though the song is inspired by real-life violenc...
Speaker
The identity of the speaker in "Street Fighting Man" is one of the hotly debated issues in Rolling Stones music. The easy answer is that the speaker is Mick Jagger. He wrote the song's lyrics in...
