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