But It's Better If You Do

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 and 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 and a lap dance And paying in naivety Oh, oh 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 I may have faked it And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place Isn't this exactly where you'd like me? I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know Praying for love and 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 and a lap dance And paying in naivety One, two, three One, two, three One, two, three 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 Isn't this exactly where you'd like me? I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know Praying for love and 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 and a lap dance And paying in naivety Praying for love and paying in naivety Praying for love and paying in naivety, oh