You must leave now   Take what you need, you think will last   But whatever you wish to keep   You'd 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   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 you   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