So I've always assumed Street Angel was about Lindsey. About his leaving Fleetwood Mac, and his and Stevie's lifelong frenemy-ship dissolving
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But listening to it recently I'm starting to really think it is about Mick. My first clue was the verse that went:
"A Charles Dickens character with your top hat and your scarf..."
That'd definitely be Mick, not Lindsey.
"When you pulled me through the rainbow, I thought you'd stop."
That could be about Mick pulling Stevie into Fleetwood Mac and stardom. Then there's the verse:
"when you were a homeless angel, that drove you wild... strange and elusive"
Mick was literally homeless for a period in the '80s. Then the song goes on:
"No amount of crying changes your mind, no amount of praying brings you inside. I know that you love me, and that you always will. You just stand outside and call to me, my street angel."
I have to wonder if this is about Stevie's leaving the band after Mick refusing to let her have Silver Springs for Timespace. The evidence for that theory continues...
"So I ended it all for the both of us. I fell down the stairs, a broken ragdoll. But you never knew, you just thought I went away.... with nothing more to hope for. But you don't hear voices anymore, no, my sweet street angel."
Seems like a pretty solid case for it being about Mick to me. Them fighting and her leaving the band a completely broken person. I could still see that last couple of verses being about Lindsey though. I just can't decide. What do y'all think??
