Key: A
Introduction:
Am C Dm
Now I'm of consenting age to be forgetting you in a cabaret.
Am Dm F
Somewhere downtown where a burlesque queen may even ask my name
Am C
As she sheds her skin on stage
F Dm
I'm seated and sweating to a dance song on the club's P.A.
Am
The strip joint veteran sits two away
Dm C Am
Smirking between dignified sips of his dignified peach and lime daiquiri
Am C Dm
And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
F
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Am C Dm
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Am C Dm
Oh, and isn't this exactly where you'd like me
F
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Am C Dm F Am
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety Oh......
Am C Dm
*palm mute *But I'm afraid that I Well, I may of faked it
Am C Dm F
And I wouldn't be caught dead, dead, dead, dead in this place
Am C Dm
Well, I'm afraid that I
Dm
That's right well, that I may have faked it
Am(1 C F
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place
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