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.

(Instrumental)

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.