This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
My latest little mood
A darker shade of blue
Still I draw closer to you
My pretty little dress
Begins to look a mess
Infatuation come through
And lie to me with you
Look at things the way you do
Indulge me, please
I`ll take the breath you breathe
Take heart I`m telling you
My life has come too soon
But somehwhere I`ll find sometime
In every other way
You`ve told me what to say
You find the words now are mine
And lie to me with you
Look at things the way you do
Indulge me, please
I`ll take the breath you breathe
Make the dream come true
Show me how to comfort you
Indulge me, please
I`ll take the breath you breathe
You may have walked away
But we`re still as close as when I gazed -
deep in your gentle eyes
And lie to me with you
Look at things the way you do
Indulge me, please
I`ll take the breath you breathe
Make the dream come true
Show me how to comfort you
Indulge me, please
I`ll take the breath you breathe
And lie to me with you
Look at things the way you do
Indulge me, please
I`ll take the breath you breathe
Make the dream come true
Show me how to comfort you
Indulge me, please
I`ll take the breath you breathe
A darker shade of blue
Still I draw closer to you
My pretty little dress
Begins to look a mess
Infatuation come through
And lie to me with you
Look at things the way you do
Indulge me, please
I`ll take the breath you breathe
Take heart I`m telling you
My life has come too soon
But somehwhere I`ll find sometime
In every other way
You`ve told me what to say
You find the words now are mine
And lie to me with you
Look at things the way you do
Indulge me, please
I`ll take the breath you breathe
Make the dream come true
Show me how to comfort you
Indulge me, please
I`ll take the breath you breathe
You may have walked away
But we`re still as close as when I gazed -
deep in your gentle eyes
And lie to me with you
Look at things the way you do
Indulge me, please
I`ll take the breath you breathe
Make the dream come true
Show me how to comfort you
Indulge me, please
I`ll take the breath you breathe
And lie to me with you
Look at things the way you do
Indulge me, please
I`ll take the breath you breathe
Make the dream come true
Show me how to comfort you
Indulge me, please
I`ll take the breath you breathe
Lyrics submitted by cupomilk413
Indulge Me Lyrics as written by Tim Kellett Ruth-ann Boyle
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management
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