Standard (EADGBE)

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