Reading the News, What Dylan Songs Come to Mind? [Vanity]

(I agree!)

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 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 army
Is all going home
Your lover, who just walked out the 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
Now, something that 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

It's not so much what he is saying, but what he is doing. His soul cries out for sanity and goodness, trying to find it by first endeavoring to call out and disqualify all of the vast amounts of hypocrisy, vanity and despair that so many have bought into. He addresses the nonsense, thereby disqualifying it, so as to leave in it's wake only bare, raw truth.

You always feel that there is desperation in his quest, and that he may not make it, but remain in the depth of futility himself. This leaves him as a sympathetic human being, who you hope finds his way. At the same time he causes his listener, who has often become very deaf to their own soul's cries, to become aware of his/her own struggle for meaning in the face of so much confusion and seemingly meaninglessness in life.

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