Now I'm of consenting age
to be forgetting
you in a cabaret
somewhere downtown
where a burlesque queen
may even ask my name
As she sheds
her skin onstage
I'm seated and sweating
to a dance song
on the club's PA
The strip joint
veteran sits two away
smirking between
dignified sips
of his dignified
peach and lime
daiquiri
And isn't this
exactly where
you'd like me
I'm exactly where
you'd like me you know
Praying for love
in a lap dance
and paying in naivety
Oh isn't this
exactly where
you'd like me
I'm exactly where
you'd like me you know
Praying for love
in a lap dance
and paying in naivety
Oooh
But I'm afraid
that I
well I may have faked it
And I wouldn't be
caught dead
de-dead de-dead
de-dead in this place
Well I'm afraid
that I
well that's right
well I may have faked it
And I
wouldn't be caught dead
in this place
And isn't this
exactly where
you'd like me
I'm exactly where
you'd like me you know
Praying for love
in a lap dance
and paying in naivety
Oh isn't this
exactly where
you'd like me
I'm exactly where
you'd like me you know
Praying for love
in a lap dance
and paying in naivety
Well I'm afraid
that I
well I may have faked it
I wouldn't be
caught dead
de-dead de-dead
de-dead in this place
Well I'm afraid
that I
well that's right
well I may have faked it
and I
wouldn't be caught dead
in this place
And isn't this
exactly where
you'd like me
I'm exactly where
you'd like me you know
Praying for love
in a lap dance
and paying in naivety
Oh isn't this
exactly where
you'd like me
I'm exactly where
you'd like me you know
Praying for love
in a lap dance
and paying in naivety
praying for love
and paying in naivety
praying for love
and paying in naivety oh