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 PA. And 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, 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 And I wouldn't be caught dead-d-dead-d-dead-d-dead in this place
Well, I'm afraid that I, 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