But when the record came out in ’65 I had a chance to ponder it and my the end of the Summer I realized that this was the most “Political directed work that Dylan had ever made. Well, baby used to stay out all night long. Thanks for your comment p1ero. One slight problem with that is that it’s a ‘he’ (‘his gun’). Leave the stepping stones behind. That her thoughts should move in this way is made plausible by their running from one flat, laid out thing to another. Look out the saints are comin' through. This article helped me out immensely in writing my analysis of Joyce Carol Oats’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” I really appreciate this in depth analysis of this song. Revised 11.9.2017. "It's All Over Now". I’ve discarded my original suggestions about the woman’s having thoughts of suicide, and the orphan’s being an actual child, in favour of one in which the woman feels her spiritual wellbeing is under threat unless she makes radical changes in her outlook. the analysis might be considered to have some validity. She, too, was in the vagabond’s position, in need of help from others. She made me cry, she done me wrong. All that seems to have made sense in the past doesn’t necessarily make any sense at all. Instead she’s in danger of being mown down by a horde of saints. A vagabond, like an orphan, is someone in need. In other words it suggests the bellicose approach they represent will no longer comprise the woman’s approach to forming relationships. Don’t dwell on the dead – the dead doesn’t change. Do let me know if you have any further thoughts. It is sometimes difficult to pin down the meaning of a song or a poem. This is one of my favorite Dylan songs, although I much prefer the Grateful Dead version from the Complete Live Rarities Collection – I think the backing music does a much better job of capturing mercurial thoughts of the narrator. And sure enough the lyrics are overly stretched to make them appear to be about Christ( when there is no mention thereof) and verses ate dismissed out of hand because they do not fit the supposition. If the narrator is giving flawed advice here, then it’s likely to be happening elsewhere in the song too. It traces the development of her mental outlook from the realisation of her situation at the beginning, to her purposeful response to it at the end. One problem, though, might be that the lover doesn’t take her property but his own – ‘his blankets’. Such is her mental state that something fairly normal is giving rise to a bizarre thought about being dead and in heaven. Playing via Spotify Playing via YouTube Playback options (If you are personally involved with “Baby Blue” as a ‘love’ song I would suggest you stop here. The Valentinos version entered the … Presumably the dead would stand for the things in her life which she’d be better off forgetting. Because your ‘Imagination is going to be severely attacked. There is no parent to say what is right and what is wrong, so the image of the gun is used to convey ultimate desperation. The Rolling Stones Lyrics. However, the view presented is mostly in the mind of the analyst rather than found in the words that are written down by the songwriter. Mental Turmoil: Sheets, Sky, Blankets, Carpet. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. The aspects of the song which P1ero singles out might perhaps support such a view, but it’s difficult to see the song as a whole doing so, isn’t it? You say you can’t see any connection with Jesus. When the orphan is described as: the woman seems to be dismissing his misery, represented by fire, as insignificant compared with her own, represented by the much vaster sun. Mr. Weir, I find your use of ‘hatchet job’ an overreaction to my pointing out that pinning down Dylan to a definitive interpretation (I’ve tried it) is to invite criticism, and the way to avoid any is simply to say here’s one that can be taken from the song. Tall, skinny, blond and lonely, Connie wants to meet someone and go somewhere. Song. Literally it would be absurd for sailors to be rowing home. They are presumably ‘your’ sailors and ‘your’ army, in that they represent the woman’s approach to life up to now. So, the advice to leave the stepping stones behind might not be good advice at all. This is perhaps because it reminds us of ‘vocation’ in its original sense. The title refers to the Bob Dylan song, "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue". As a lost orphan, this desperation is clearly juvenile and miniscule in the grand scheme of things, thus “crying like a fire in the sun.” Is it over? The “Lover” is France and DeGaul would leave NATO and kick us out of France. She accepts that what befalls one is a matter of chance: tells us that she can only afford low stakes (‘use your cents’), but also that she recognises the need to act wisely (‘use your sense’) in selecting which risks to take. The most famous Adolph Hitler. I don’t see it as an actual orphan, but an extension of the subject herself– with all this sudden change comes no guidance. I merely responded to what’s said. In this sense, by heeding the call to act selflessly for the sake of others, the woman would be beginning a process of spiritual renewal. – so “strike another match, go start anew”! The Rolling Stones had their first number-one hit with this song in July 1964. Four of the five Womack brothers are now deceased. That the one is to be seen as a direct replacement for the other is clear from a similarity in the language used in describing their behaviour: ‘The lover who just walked out your door‘, ‘The vagabond who’s rapping at your door‘. The first stanza describes how things are changing now, and exactly right now – there’s no time to plan ahead. "It's All Over Now" is a song written by Bobby Womack and Shirley Womack. One way in which this is so is in the use of fire and sun imagery. It is with GREAT trepidation that I have decided to speak my mind about this song. How, for example would you fit in the lines about the lover having gone off with his blankets, and the carpet moving? – the vagabond who’s rapping at your door is a vision of the people you formerly despised now being in control, even wearing “the clothes that you once wore”, That seems to do justice to the tone. 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