[Neuromancer]

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 sheets.
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.
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, 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.

[goldstategop]

The Democrats are the Bob Dylan "Baby Blue" party and sulking like scowling kids, have taken home with them their reindeer armies and their marbles. A fitting epitaph to their fate in the 2002 election.

[ccmay]

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.

Reindeer armies? Sky folding under you?

F**king gibberish, even if you could understand his mumbling. I don't know what people ever saw in that brain-fried whacko. Michael Stipe does the stream-of-consciousness non sequitir shtick way better.

The most hilarious thing about this worthless man is that his slurred accent is a put-on, adopted by him in imitation of his hero Woody Guthrie.

But Woody Guthrie did not sing that way for most of his life. It was only when he was nearing the end of his battle with Huntington's chorea that Dylan visited him, and began to copy the incoherent mumbling of a man dying of a neuro-degenerative disease. Bet the Guthrie family loves that.

-ccm