The womanвЂ™s death, then, (if it were to occur) would be spiritual death resulting from a failure to reform. The term вЂorphanвЂ™ perhaps implies a lack of concern for others, an orphan having been deprived of parental care. The child is best seen as the consequences of the womanвЂ™s past life which will in some sense destroy her if she doesnвЂ™t turn her back on them. The orphan need not be a literal child, and the death need not be a literal, physical death. The imminence of the danger, and the need to вЂleave nowвЂ™ is enhanced by her death being presented as having already occurred вЂ“ the child is an вЂorphanвЂ™. However, from what follows in the first verse (in particular the reference to the orphanвЂ™s gun) this opening line would also seem to imply that thereвЂ™s a danger of imminent death at the hands of her child. Taken literally, she is doing no more than deciding on a course of action following the departure of her lover and, presumably, the end of their relationship. вЂYou must leave now, take what you need you think will lastвЂ™ Along the way this outlook moves from depression, back to reality and finally to optimism.ДЇrom the outset the womanвЂ™s state of mind is associated with death and whether her life has been of moral value:

It traces the development of her mental outlook from the realisation of her situation at the beginning, to her purposeful response to it at the end.

As such the song can be taken as her thoughts as she comes to terms with the change in her life and perhaps achieves some sort of spiritual renewal. Although the woman concerned is being addressed by the narrator, it makes sense to see her for most of the time as addressing herself. Essentially itвЂ™s about the mental state of someone trying to renew their life following what they see as a calamity вЂ“ the breakup of a relationship. The first thing to say is that thereвЂ™s little reason to see ItвЂ™s All Over Now Baby Blue as вЂaboutвЂ™ an event in DylanвЂ™s life, such as his adopting a new musical style around the time it was written.

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