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 in a lap dance and paying in naivety Oh, 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, but I´m afraid that I Well, I may of faked it And I wouldn´t be caught dead in this place Well, I´m afraid that I Well, that´s right, that 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, 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 Well, I´m afraid that I Well, I may of faked it And I wouldn´t be caught 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 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, 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 Praying for love and paying in naivety Praying for love and paying in naivety, oh