Key of A minor.

        Am                          C                D
Now I'm of consenting age to be forgetting you in a cabaret.
    Am                                         C              D        
Somewhere downtown where a burlesque queen may even ask my name
       Am
As she sheds her skin on stage
    C                         D                          
I'm seated and sweating to a dance song on the club's P.A.
Am
The strip joint veteran sits two away
C                     D                          Am          C  F       E
Smirking between dignified sips of his dignified peach and lime   daiquiri

Am          C            F   
  And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
     E
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Am             C         F            E
  Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Am            C            F  
  Oh, isn't this exactly where you'd like me
     E
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Am             C         F             E
  Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety

Am, C, F
Oh     
    Am     C         F
But I'm afraid that I
      E
Well, I may have faked it
    Am         C         F                  E
And I wouldn't be caught dead, dead, dead, dead in this place

    Am     C         F
Well, I'm afraid that I
      E
Well, I may have faked it
    Am         C         F                  E
And I wouldn't be caught dead, dead, dead, dead in this place

Am          C            F   
  And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
     E
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Am             C         F            E
  Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Am            C            F  
  Oh, isn't this exactly where you'd like me
     E
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Am             C         F             E
  Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety

    Am     C         F
Well, I'm afraid that I
      E
Well, I may have faked it
    Am         C         F                  E
And I wouldn't be caught dead, dead, dead, dead in this place

    Am        C        F
Well, I'm afraid that I
                         E
Well, that's right, well I may have faked it
    Am         C         F       E
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place

Am          C            F   
  And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
     E
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Am             C         F            E
  Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Am            C            F  
  Oh, isn't this exactly where you'd like me
     E
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Am             C         F             E
  Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
  Am                  C
Praying for love and paying in naivety
 F                    E                 Am
Praying for love and paying in naivety, oh