Am
Now I'm of consenting age
         Dm
To be forgetting you in a cabaret
    Am
Somewhere downtown where a burlesque queen
     Dm
May even ask my name

       Am
As she sheds her skin on stage
    Dm                                                  Am
I'm sitting and sweating to a dance song on the club's PA.
                                          Dm
And the strip joint veteran sits two away
                                                 G         D   F
Smirking between dignified sips of his dignified peach and lime daiquiri...

[Verse]
Am        C            G   
And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
      D                               Am
I'm exactly where you'd like me you know
             C         D
Praying for love in a lap dance

And paying in naivety

Am        C            G
Oh, isn't this exactly where you'd like me
       D                                Am
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
            C          D
Praying for love in a lap dance
                         Am     Dm
And paying in naivety    OhhhhhhOoOoOo

[Verse]
         Am
Oh, but I'm afraid that I,

Well I may have faked it
    Am                        Dm
And I wouldn't be caught dead-d-dead-d-dead-d-dead in this place

      Am                    Dm
Well, I'm afraid that I,

That's right, well I may have faked it
    Am                    Dm
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place


Am        C            G
And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
      D                               Am
I'm exactly where you'd like me you know
            C         D
Praying for love in a lap dance

And paying in naivety

[Verse]
Am        C            G
Oh, isn't this exactly where you'd like me
      D                                Am
I'm exactly where you'd like me you know
            C         D
Praying for love in a lap dance

And paying in naivety

[Interlude]
Am          Am Dm        Am  Dm       Am  Dm

      Am                Dm
Well, I'm afraid that I,

Well I may have faked it
    Am                       Dm
And I wouldn't be caught dead-d-dead-d-dead-d-dead in this place


      Am                Dm
Well, I'm afraid that I,

That's right, well I may have faked it
    Am                   Dm
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place

[Verse]
Am        C            G
And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
      D                                 Am
I'm exactly where you'd like me you know
            C         D
Praying for love in a lap dance

And paying in naivety


Am        C            G
Oh, isn't this exactly where you'd like me
      D                                 Am
I'm exactly where you'd like me you know
            C          D
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

[Outro]
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