But It's Better If You Do
Now I'm of consenting ageTo be forgetting you in a cabaretSomewhere downtown where a burlesque queenMay even ask my nameAs she sheds her skin on stageI'm seated and I’m sweating to a dance song on the club's P.A.The strip joint veteran sits two awaySmirking 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 knowPraying for love in a lap danceAnd paying in naivetyOh, isn't this exactly where you'd like me?I'm exactly where you'd like me, you knowPraying for love in a lap danceAnd paying in naivety
Oh, but I'm afraid that IWell, I may have faked itAnd I wouldn't be caught dead-d-dead-d-dead-d-dead in this placeWell, I'm afraid that IThat's right, well, I may have faked itAnd 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 knowPraying for love in a lap danceAnd paying in naivetyOh, isn't this exactly where you'd like me?I'm exactly where you'd like me, you knowPraying for love in a lap danceAnd paying in naivety
Well, I'm afraid that IWell I may have faked itAnd I wouldn't be caught dead-d-dead-d-dead-d-dead in this placeWell, I'm afraid that IWell that's right, well, I may have faked itAnd 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 knowPraying for love in a lap danceAnd paying in naivetyOh, isn't this exactly where you'd like me?I'm exactly where you'd like me, you knowPraying for love in a lap danceAnd paying in naivety
Praying for love and paying in naivetyPraying for love and paying in naivety, oh