“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 sea sick sailors , they are rowing home
your empty handed armies are 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
Ang 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 a new
and it’s all over now, baby blue.”
It’s all over now, baby blue
-Bob Dylan
Seeking instructions from somewhere high up
do this , do that
reciprocate
who started talking
who stopped it ?
you think you are a ship having reached land
but no one ,
no one is holding your hand
you think that sanity demands a certain compromise
you think this means now you got to rise
but watching people walking sitting
together or alone
you recall watching from someplace far away
the movement of time slipping away
you can not stop time
you can not hold space
your instructions come to you
line after line
watching the world go by
watching someone you don’t know
holding the hand of another person you will never know
sometimes, like now
you got to let it go somewhere else
if you don’t die in the process
you grow to know
what life is all about
some days are hard
they are stone
but there will be other days
flowing like water
the sun will show you too many people
the shadow will be a friend
hiding what you can not understand just now
keep walking
stop asking how
let the past disappear
let yourself seek a new home
somewhere else
where you don’t recognize even a single face
but where you will finally come to know yourself !
