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 sitting 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