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 on stage

I'm seated and sweating to a dance song on the club's P.A.
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.

Oh, but I'm afraid that I,

Well, I may have faked it
And I wouldn't be caught dead-d-dead-d dead-d dead in this place


Well, I'm afraid that I
Well, that's right, that 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
And I wouldn't be caught dead-d-dead-d dead-d 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