"Bedtime Story" with commentary

I have always been unhappy with my name. In the early 1990s, I tried turning myself into Ashley Standing, a pop music alter ego that was to be something of a male version of Madonna. Toward that end, I wrote a whole bunch of songs with sensual/sexual themes, recording four of them for a cassette called simply “Ashley Standing.” The recordings were done at Hinge Studio in Chicago, and “Bedtime Story” was by far the best of them. Some of these lyrics make me cringe today, though.

Bedtime Story

© 1994 Brian Hutzell

Sorry, not tonight.  I'm tired; I have to rest

I couldn't enjoy it; my mind is too stressed

Please don't be upset that I'm not in the mood

But follow me into my room

I can't stop thinking about the problems of the day

I need something to take my cares away

Stay: Tell me a bedtime story

Won't you stay--Treat me like a little boy

Stay: Tell me a bedtime story

Please stay--Treat me like your little boy

Don't excite me--keep your voice low

Rub my back nice and slow

Let your story just evolve

Give it a happy ending--problems solved

Sleep descends on the tale you create

Then let life imitate

Stay: Tell me a bedtime story

Won't you stay--Treat me like a little boy

Stay: Tell me a bedtime story

Please stay--Treat me like your little boy

In the morning, all is new

I remember nothing except you

Maybe this evening, you can come again

This is a private club, but I'll let you in

Stay: Tell me a bedtime story

Won't you stay--Treat me like a little boy

Stay: Tell me a bedtime story

Please stay--Treat me like your little boy