That road is for gamblers so you had better use your sense or you could lose everything. Now she is headed out on her own with no one to advise her. Previously, Dylan's manager, accountants, bankers, lawyers and others took care of 'all' of life's issues. Then the next verse brings it all home: 'It's all over now Baby Blue!' Dylan is Baby Blue and he is speaking to himself and he has come to the realization that this relationship is over! The next verse is a warning: 'The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense!' Dylan is talking to her and explaining that you (maybe with their kids too) are heading out on your own. 'Look out, the Saints are coming through!' Yes, the Saints represent the dead and this relationship is dead, over, finished. The next verse is back to the finality of this breakup. Crying like a fire in the sun represents a wonderful analogy between a fire in the daytime that no one stands close to because they don't need the heat or the light as apposed to a fire at night that warms everyone around the fire and lights their faces. The next verse tells more: 'Yonder stands your orphan with his gun.' He is watching this complete gutting of their life from possessions, to money and their relationship and he is so angry he could shoot her! What about him, his feelings, he is orphaned by her! Alone, no family! But, he makes his feelings clear in the next verse: 'Crying like a fire in the sun.' Dylan is so angry he could shoot her but he is so hurt that he is crying and sobbing at the loss of their relationship. He is about fed up with her taking possessions and not caring about their lost relationship. Dylan questions: Is this what you think is important? These possessions? What about the love we had, the relationship we had? Next verse: 'But whatever you want you better grab it fast.' I think this is kind of a cheesy rhyme but the meaning is a warning. Most of the time, the female picked out all of the household items so she naturally wants to take them. Divorces are ugly when the couple starts dividing up the house hold possessions.

Then Bart is killed by the cops.ДЇirst verse: 'You must leave now, take what you think will last.' I believe this is about a breakup, maybe a divorce, but it speaks about a serious relationship that is over. At that point, 'It's all over now Baby Blue'. Laurie was going to shoot them but Bart instead shoots and kills Laurie to save his two friends lives. That's were we get the line 'Look out the saints are comin' through'. Bart friends Dave and Clyde show up to attempt to save their lives. 'The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense'. They travel the highways during their killing spree. 'Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you'. They go on a rampage and she kills some people. Bart shoots at the matches from a distance and the bullets light each of the matches. 'Strike another match.' is in reference to a crown of stick matches she wears on her head as part of the act. At a carnival he meets (and ends up marrying) a sharpshooter named Annie Laurie Starr. Eventually he ends up in the Army teaching marksmanship. He gets in trouble and is sent to reform school. 'Yonder stands your orphan with his gun'. In this case the character Bart Tare is an orphaned boy living in a small town and has an obsession with guns. The plot of 'Gun Crazy' is sort of 'Bonnie and Clyde' in nature. The song is the 1950 film noir 'Gun Crazy' put to music.

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