It's all over now baby blue -Bob Dylan - Marianne Faithfull

"It's all over now, Baby Blue" est une chanson écrite et interprétée par Bob Dylan, présente sur son album Bringing It All Back Home, sorti le 22 mars 1965 chez Columbia Records (voir 1965 en musique). La chanson a été enregistrée le 15 janvier 1965, avec la guitare acoustique et l'harmonica de Dylan, et la basse de William E. Lee comme seuls instruments. Les paroles ont été fortement influencées par la poésie symboliste et disent adieu au "Baby Blue" éponyme. Il y a eu beaucoup de spéculations sur l'identité réelle de "Baby Blue".

You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last.
But whatever you wish to keep, you'd better grab it fast.
Yonder stands your orphan with his gun,
Crying like a fire in the sun.
Look out the saints are coming through
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense.
Take what you have gathered from coincidence.
The empty-handed painter from your streets
Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets.
This sky, too, is folding under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home.
Your empty-handed armies are all going home.
The lover who just walked out your door
Has taken all his blankets from the floor.
The carpet, too, is moving under you
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
Leave your stepping stones behind you, something calls for you.
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
Strike another match, go start anew
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.
 

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