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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 in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Oh, 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, but I'm afraid that I
Well, I may of faked it
And I wouldn't be caught 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
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, 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
Well, I'm afraid that I
Well, I may of faked it
And I wouldn't be caught 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
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, 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
Praying for love and paying in naivety
Praying for love and paying in naivety, oh
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 in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Oh, 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, but I'm afraid that I
Well, I may of faked it
And I wouldn't be caught 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
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, 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
Well, I'm afraid that I
Well, I may of faked it
And I wouldn't be caught 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
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, 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
Praying for love and paying in naivety
Praying for love and paying in naivety, oh
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If you haven't seen Moulin Rouge!, it is basically about a guy, Christian, who is a writer. He comes to a strip joint, the Moulin Rouge, to work on a play. The first day he's there, he is mistaken for the Duke and is set up for an appointment with the most sought-after prostitute of the club, Satine. Christian thinks it's a poetry reading, and she thinks he's a client. He recites/sings Your Song by Elton John. Satine quickly confesses her love for him referring to him as the Duke but he tells her he isn't the Duke. She can't be with him and he wants her, but he doesn't have the money to pay.
"Oh, but I'm afraid that I
Well, I may of faked it
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place" ------ Christian realizes Satine thinks he's the Duke and it isn't a poetry reading.
"Praying for love and a lap dance and paying in naivety." --------- Christian loves Satine but he can't pay, only in naivety.
"And isn't this exactly where you'd like me" ---- Possibly what Christian thinks, kind of like 'Oh, you wish I was the Duke.'
"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." -------- When Christian first sees Satine, she is singing and dancing, and she is all over him in the crowd.
So that's my interpretation of the song, I hope it's not too far fetched.
''Now I'm of consenting age to be forgetting you in a cabaret''
He's saying 'im old enough to go and i can forget about you easy when there's proper 'women' around.'
''Somewhere downtown where a burlesque queen may even ask my name''
A dig at th fact the girl doesn't take the time to know him yet a stripper would.
''I'm seated and sweating to a dance song on the club's P.A.''
He's nervous because he doesn't really want to be there but he thinks it's the why for her to notice him.
''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''
'and isn't this exactly where you'd like me I'm exactly where you'd like me'
Suggests that he's there for her to show that he is 'man eough' because he's at a strip joint, where all the manly men would go.
'Praying for in a lap dance and paying in naivety'
obviously he would like to be loved but he is naive to think it'd come from a lap dancer who is just doing her job.
''Well, I may of faked it
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place''
Again something that suggests he doesn't want to be there cause he's not used to sleezy places but he goes to try and prove he' a Man.
Well that's my ideas of what the lines mean :) Marvelous song!! ;D
the titles are a line in the film...
1. guy finds out wife has cheated
2. asks her if hes better in bed...(LITMF)
3. he goes to the strip club to 4get her/revenge... in the film he's trying to find the stripper, who's "boyfriend" f*cked his wife
4.(i write sins not tradgies) links with him been reminded of her cheating and the fact it happened.
and the line ".. preying in naivety" means she wants him to act is if he's so innocent, hence the NAIVETY.(naive refers to him not knowing what he's doing, but we know he does.)DUH!