Mood Indigo
Embracing the Melancholic Hue
Lyrics
You ain't never been blue; no, no, no,
You have never experienced sadness or melancholy;
You ain't never been blue,
Reiteration of the lack of experience in feeling blue;
Till you've had that mood indigo.
True blue feelings only emerge when one has felt the deep, soulful emotion known as "mood indigo";
That feelin' goes stealin' down to my shoes
The emotion descends through the speaker's being, affecting even their shoes;
While I just sit here and sigh, "Go 'long blues".
The speaker is left sitting, feeling the blues and expressing a resigned acknowledgment of the emotion;
I always get that mood indigo,
The speaker consistently experiences mood indigo;
Since my baby said goodbye.
This feeling has intensified since the departure of the speaker's beloved;
And in the evenin' when the lights are low,
During the evening, when the surroundings are dimly lit, the loneliness becomes overwhelming;
I'm so lonely I could cry.
The speaker is so lonely that they could cry;
'Cause there's nobody who cares about me,
The speaker expresses a sense of abandonment, with no one caring for them;
I'm just a poor fool that's bluer than blue can be.
The speaker feels like a deeply sorrowful fool, experiencing a level of sadness beyond typical blues;
When I get that mood indigo,
Reiteration of the recurring experience of mood indigo;
I could lay me down and die.
The emotional weight is so heavy that the speaker contemplates the idea of laying down and dying;
You ain't never been blue; no, no, no,
Repetition of the assertion that the listener has never experienced deep sadness;
You ain't never been blue,
Further emphasizing the lack of experience in feeling blue;
Till you've had that mood indigo.
Restating that true blue feelings only emerge with the experience of mood indigo;
That feelin' goes stealin' down to my shoes
Reiteration that the emotional impact reaches down to the speaker's shoes;
While I just sit here and sigh, "Go 'long blues".
While sitting, the speaker expresses the sentiment of the blues with a resigned sigh.
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