Timbaland - SexyBack
Time: 0:30
Dirty, babe (uh-huh)
You see these shackles, baby, I'm your slave (uh-huh)
I'll let you whip me if I misbehave (uh-huh)

bond; a restraint that confines or restricts freedom
Heard in 54 songs (544M+ combined views) — most famously in "SexyBack" by Timbaland.
Updated August 1, 2026
Time: 0:30
Dirty, babe (uh-huh)
You see these shackles, baby, I'm your slave (uh-huh)
I'll let you whip me if I misbehave (uh-huh)

Time: 0:24
Talkin' to my lil' sister, phone calls through Securus
Walk in court in them shackles, see my mama, her eyes tearin'
Tryna work towards these blessings, but the devil keep interfering

Time: 2:54
Little homie, this is a whole different type of war game
See the losers end up in shackles and motherfucking chains
Or laid out in the streets leaking out they brains

Time: 1:22
A smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth
You said that irony was the shackles of youth
You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh

Time: 1:58
I'll fly away
No more cold iron shackles on my feet
I'll fly away

Time: 0:22
You wear guilt
Like shackles on your feet
Like a halo in reverse

Time: 2:24
At last the birds have flown
The shackles of commitment fell
In pieces on the ground

Time: 0:00
Take the shackles off my feet so I can dance
I just wanna praise ya

Time: 2:31
Don't bridle
Don't shackle
Don't grind (Gimme some more)

Time: 1:33
I should probably go and get her the Plain Jane
Free Baby M out the shackle and chain
Me, my evil twin, we one in the same

Time: 0:09
I pled my case with the Gods, woman
Just place your sweet shackles on my mind
I'm bound to white notions of weightless love

Time: 0:16
Cold iron shackles, ball and chain
I listen to the whistle of the evenin' train

Time: 1:40
At night, I done sing out my heart, so
Can't get my foot out the streets like I got shackles on
Dump, over 15 million I done made since you been gone

Time: 3:36
♪
Shackle their minds when they're bent on the cross
When ignorance reigns, life is lost

Time: 0:44
When the man done gone down the county farm
He got the shackles on
Baby, please don't go

Time: 0:08
I can see the route ain't clear, I don't think of runnin' backwards
Take the money, then you leave, ain't tryna stop to leave in shackles
I been ramblin' 'cause my plans feel dismantled

Time: 1:08
Them for their anger and rage
Put them in shackles and chains
Because of what they became

Time: 0:55
Tell him I'm goin' home
I don't want your cold iron shackles
'Round my leg

Time: 0:40
Got shackles on, my words are tied
Fear can make you compromise

Time: 1:07
Heaven knows he's hell-bent on me
Shackles and chains, thank God that he can break me free
'Cause Lord knows the devil don't sleep

Time: 2:34
The matchless power of the glow
I was bound by golden shackles
Getting by

Time: 0:48
Girl, you got me by my handstands
I'm steppin' out with shackles on my ankles
You walk around and turn me to a standstill

Time: 0:45
I'm your are-o-l-a-I-d-s, release the squeeze or release the keys
To the shackles on her wrist, she can tackle some of this
Smack on smack on some of this Dick Tracy

Time: 3:02
Oh, little girl, there's enough love in this circle
You can shackle yourself or be free from this pain
You know with every cruel word that you utter

Time: 1:31
I remember the way that you smiled
When the gravity shackles were wild
And something is vacant

Time: 4:00
Steal your car keys and crash your coupe in the botanical
Wrap you with shackles, tangle you, pull from ever angle, dismantle you
Watch your blood mixed with mud and stain the gravel too

Time: 1:02
And jump into the saddle with you you you
And I just can't seem to break the shackles of the city boy blues
I got the city boy blues

Time: 2:30
This is the destiny of all mankind
We will shake off these chains and shackles that bind
Come on, let's give them everything we have

Time: 0:37
About the love that Jesus has given me
He loosed my shackles and He set me free
Is this a dream or is this reality?

Time: 1:21
Went to Africa, I just touched down from Ghana
Cartier shackles, got my eye on a model
Bought her Pucci, I don't know how I'ma hide

Time: 1:22
The stars that cover the scars
When we broke the shackles
And I've never been to war before

Time: 1:07
So I just dream and keep on being the way I am
The way I am don't fit my shackles
The way I am, reality

Time: 5:34
His closest friends were black men 'cause they seemed to understand
What it's like to be in society with a shackle on your hand
When they let him out in '71 he'd lost a little weight

Time: 3:06
Pay me back when you shake it again
I got my shackles on your feet (you owe me)
I think you owe me some (you owe me)

Time: 1:55
If you can just believe
Don't live your life in shackles
When faith can be the key

Time: 1:25
But the kingdom of freedom is all they said
But why the shackle and chain? My homie's life slayed
From the cradle to the grave, every soldier shall ride

Time: 0:41
Left the county farm
You had the shackles on
Baby, please don't go

Time: 1:43
Grandmama, grandbaby
Shackle everybody
Interrupt your party

Time: 1:37
♪
Release all the shackles
One by one
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Time: 0:27
And I've taken just as much as I can stand, I can stand
Oh, we got to free our brothers from their shackles, yeah, if we can, if we can
Most nights, I have to watch my woman cry, oh, she cries

Time: 2:58
(There's no one like Him. Hey!)
All the shackles start to break
All of hell begins to shake

Time: 0:13
Has her leash and a face
Her velvet spleen her shackle spine
Her diamond curse

Time: 2:28
How I'm gonna pay the state for what I've done
Hey, then they'll put the shackles on me
And we'll take a little walk

Time: 0:29
Knock down all the roadblocks a-stumbling me
Throw off all the shackles that are binding me down
Sew up the wounds of evolution

Time: 0:10
I got rid of the shackles that bound me and the guards that were always around me
There were tears on the mail mother wrote me in jail

Time: 2:14
Then you will reach for me
Shackle and chain can't settle me
Shackle and chain can't settle me

Time: 0:26
Love Is Eternal Sacred Light
Free From The Shackles Of Time
Evil Is Darkness Sight Without Sight

Time: 0:22
When I woke up
Had shackles on my feet
It takes a worried man

Time: 0:24
Too weak to break the chains that bind me
I need no shackles to remind me
I'm just a prisoner of love

Time: 0:09
Poor slave, take the shackles off your body
Poor slave, put the shackles on your mind

Time: 0:16
About the colour of my toilet roll and if my cousin's queer
"Here's your gold watch and the shackles for your chain
And your piece of paper to say you left here sane"

Time: 0:45
I see ya under the midnight
All shackles and bows
High shoes with the cleats a-clicking

Time: 3:21
Picture the scene at the old salt house docks
They loaded the iron shackles and locks
Between a sandstone crocodile, a barrel and a bale

Time: 1:20
I'm free from the guilt of the past
For I've traded my shackles for a glorious song
I'm free! Praise the Lord! Free at last!
