The song “It’s All
Over Now, Baby Blue” starts off very similar to “Love Minus Zero / No Limit”
yet instead of being an upbeat love song like the latter is a lamenting ballad.
With the first few lines talking about an imminent departure, “You must leave
now, take what you need, you think will last”, it almost directly opposes the
title of the album. While the Album talks of coming back home this song talks
of leaving comfort and home. It talks about leaving a relationship that the
couple had known to call comfort and a home and now what used to be comfort for
them is foreign and they, realizing its all over, must part ways and “leave
home”. While the sixties were known to bring hype about leaving home and
starting camp for a new life elsewhere, this song illuminates the downsides
that came with leaving home. Emphasis on the fact that there was a not so
positive aspect to leaving home at a young age, “Its All Over Now, Baby Blue”
shows how not all leaving the home was in excitement. Some of it was sad and
hard but thought of as inevitable. The live version performed in 1966 is in the
video below!
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