Bob Dylan: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Meaning

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue Lyrics

You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun
Crying like a fire in the sun
Look out the saints are comin' through
And it's all over now,...

1. m320753

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   Sep 22nd 2010 !⃝

   To a request about this song and it's meaning, in my earlier comments I gave my thoughts on "baby blue" this is what Dylan is all about, every time you hear a Dylan song another light bulb turns on in your brain. Hearing it the other night for the zillionth time it is about leaving the hardcore folk music to expand on the next higher level. It's like a message to the old guard folk singers like Pete Seegar and all telling them to take what ever they think will last, but whatever you want to take you better grab it fast. and telling them to strike another match go start anew was a very popular way of a type of unity as they swayed back and forth with tears rolling down the female's faces and men too. This statement although honorable was quickly halted with too many people throwing the matches away after burning their fingers. It also was deemed a fire hazard, especially at indoor venues causing how many small fires the Good Lord only knows. besides matches were being frowned apon 1st from the people who opposed smoking, unless it was a joint. 2nd bic lighters were making matches obsolete. That too was replaced with little flash lights which also were frowned apon because of the dangers of shit faced members of the audience throwing them like fastballs at the stadium. So now they wave their hands over their head which will end shortly because people have more hair under their arms than on their heads and hygiene is not near the top priority to them so on a hot summer night you get a nice 90 minutes of 30,000 people's b.o. anyway back to it's all over now baby blue can also be attributed to Suzie Rotello leaving for a trip to Spain to buy him a pair of boots made of Spanish leather and her sister Carla who hated Dylan like a frenchman hates a shower again there was a song about her I believe it is ballad in plain d but could be wrong, and a few years or months later was standing at her door a success wearing expensive clothes and not the vagabond who was rapping at her door, standing in the clothes that you once wore. Meaning the tables turned and he was on top and she at the bottom which could lead to a couple of other songs where Dylan sang basically the same words eg; idiot wind that's about it for now. my brain is starting to hurt
2. m320753

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   Mar 8th 2010 !⃝

   dylan first sang this at the newport jazz festival.after doing his set with acoustic guitar, he took a break. when the curtain came up there were drums on stage and electric guitars. dylan started playing folk-rock and there was revolution in the air. afteranother short break, he came back with his harp and acoustic guitar and sang baby blue .the crowd went wild again, thinking the rock songs were a put on. he then walked off stage to cheers. it wasn't til later that they started to understand what the song really meant. it wasn't about a breakup with a girl which could be joan baez. it was really about dylan going to folk rock and was saying good bye to the old dylan and hello to the new one, actually the first lines pointed to that "you must leave now take what you want, but whatever it is you better grab it fast,"one of the songs he sang like a rolling stone redefined the world of music and it still does today. a lot of people have differing feelings about baby blue for in the years after a lot of his songs had various interpretations. which is why he remains popular today and will be for who knows how many hundreds of years to come? i mean colleges have courses on dylan.
3. outrage....

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   Mar 7th 2010 !⃝

   1960's anti-Vietnam, anti-Establishment version of Bugle Boy from Company B. Modern day, enlisted, soldier going off to that war is Baby Blue. I believe it was Dylan's F you to a soldier supporting the cause with his enlistment, values, politics and blind patriotism.

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