"Ankle Bracelet"

I’ve occasionally had words with someone who thought they recognized themselves in a song of mine. While I not infrequently use events from my life as the basis for songs, I nearly always have to alter reality in the interest of improving the song. Very few of my songs would really qualify as autobiographical. This is not one of them.

Ankle Bracelet

© 1992 Brian Hutzell

Stripped down to your ankle bracelet 

Stripped down to your ankle bracelet

Follow you--every movement

Where you go I will know 
You'll be stripped down to your ankle bracelet 
Striped down to nothing

Privacy: oh no, don't even think it

What have you ever done to deserve it?

I'll be watching you in the shower

Don't pretend I don't have the power

In my grip you'll be my slave, having forged your own chain

It's unfair--don't know it!

But who cares, the way you blow it

Stripped down to your ankle bracelet

Stripped down to your ankle bracelet

Follow you--every movement

Where you go I will know

You'll be stripped down to your ankle bracelet

Stripped down to nothing

Intimacy: with me you'll share it

Nobody else alive could carry this weight

You've gone insane, and the only thing you want to give me is your brain

But you'll be stripped down to your ankle bracelet

Stripped down to your ankle bracelet

Follow you--every movement

Where you go I will know

You'll be stripped down to your ankle bracelet

Stripped down to nothing

We came together independently, then lost ourselves in loving generosity

We lost the time, we lost our minds

I stand before you naked--telling, asking, begging you to be mine

I am stripped down to my ankle bracelet

Stripped down to my ankle bracelet

Follow me--every movement

Love me, some improvement

Watch me strip down

Let's not slip now that we're stripped down to nothing

Stripped of the ankle bracelet

Stripped of the ankle bracelet