I'll shout and scream, I'll kill the King, I'll rail at all his servants Hey! think the time is right for a palace revolution,īut where I live the game to play is compromise solution. 'Cause summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy
Mick Jagger's typically half-buried lyrics seem at casual listening like a call to revolution." “Įverywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy,
That unsettling, urgent guitar rhythm is the mainstay of the verses. In his review, Richie Unterberger says of the song, ".it's a great track, gripping the listener immediately with its sudden, springy guitar chords and thundering, offbeat drums. The song opens with a strummed acoustic riff. And so the government was almost inactive. I mean, they almost toppled the government in France de Gaulle went into this complete funk, as he had in the past, and he went and sort of locked himself in his house in the country. But not only in France but also in America, because of the Vietnam War and these endless disruptions.I thought it was a very good thing at the time. Yeah, it was a direct inspiration, because by contrast, London was very quiet.It was a very strange time in France. On the writing, Jagger said in a 1995 interview with Jann Wenner in Rolling Stone, He also found inspiration in the rising violence among student rioters on Paris's Left Bank, the precursor to a period of civil unrest in May 1968. Jagger allegedly wrote it about Tariq Ali after he attended a 1968 anti-war rally at London's US embassy, during which mounted police attempted to control a crowd of 25,000. Originally titled and recorded as "Did Everyone Pay Their Dues?", containing the same music but very different lyrics, "Street Fighting Man" is known as one of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards' most politically inclined works to date.
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