"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" Joan Baez 1965

                             

"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" est une chanson écrite et interprétée par Bob Dylan et figurant 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 guitare basse de William E. Lee comme seule instrumentation. Les paroles ont été fortement influencées par la poésie symboliste et ont fait leurs adieux au titulaire "Baby Blue". Il y a eu beaucoup de spéculations sur l'identité réelle de "Baby Blue", avec des possibilités telles que Joan Baez, David Blue, Paul Clayton, le public de musique folk de Dylan et même Dylan lui-même.

It's All Over Now, baby Blue It's All Over Now, baby Blue 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, 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 sheet This sky, too, is folding under you And it's all over now, baby blue All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home All your reindeer armies are all going home Your lover who just walked out your door Has taken all her 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 A vagabond who's rapping at your door Is standing in the clothes that you once wore Strike another match, let's start anew And it's all over now, baby blue Oh, it's all over now, baby blue