It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Farewell to Yesterday: Embracing Change and Letting Go
Lyrics
You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last
Encouragement to leave, taking essentials you believe will endure.
But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast
Advice to quickly secure possessions you want to retain.
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun
Reference to a forsaken figure with a firearm.
Crying like a fire in the sun
Depiction of emotional turmoil akin to a blazing fire.
Look out the saints are comin' through
Warning of approaching challenges represented by saints.
And it's all over now, baby blue.
Conclusion that the situation is irreversible, signaling an end.
The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense
Highway metaphor for life's uncertainties, urging practicality.
Take what you have gathered from coincidence
Suggestion to use experiences gathered by chance.
The empty handed painter from your streets
Introduction of an eccentric artist making chaotic creations.
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets
Imagery of unconventional art impacting personal spaces.
This sky, too, is folding under you
Symbolic description of a collapsing sky, reflecting instability.
And it's all over now, baby blue.
Reiteration of irreversible change, using the persona "baby blue."
All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home
Reference to disoriented sailors returning amid chaos.
Your empty handed armies, are all going home
Allusion to defeated armies heading back, empty-handed.
Your lover who just walked out the door
Mention of a departed lover, taking everything with him.
Has taken all his blankets from the floor
Detailing the departure, including the removal of personal items.
The carpet, too, is moving under you
Symbolic movement of the environment beneath, mirroring change.
And it's all over now, baby blue.
Final confirmation of the irreversible conclusion, "baby blue."
Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you
Instruction to abandon past experiences, something new beckoning.
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you
Assurance that past burdens won't haunt the future.
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Introduction of a wanderer at the door, embodying change.
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore
Visual imagery of the wanderer wearing the persona's past.
Strike another match, go start a new
Encouragement to ignite a new beginning, using a metaphorical match.
And it's all over now, baby blue.
Final confirmation that the past is definitively over.
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