But It's Better If You Do

by Panic! at the Disco

From the album: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

Track 9 of 13 on A Fever You Can't Sweat Out (2005).

Duration: 03:25

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Lyrics for But It's Better If You Do

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 and 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 and a lap dance And paying in naivety Oh, oh 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 Well I may have faked it And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place Isn't this exactly where you'd like me? I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know Praying for love and 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 and a lap dance And paying in naivety One, two, three One, two, three One, two, three 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 Well that's right, well I may have faked it And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place Isn't this exactly where you'd like me? I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know Praying for love and 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 and 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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More from A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

  1. Introduction
  2. The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage
  3. London Beckoned Songs About Money Written by Machines
  4. Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks
  5. Camisado
  6. Time to Dance
  7. Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off
  8. Intermission
  9. But It's Better If You Do
  10. I Write Sins Not Tragedies
  11. I Constantly Thank God for Esteban
  12. There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet
  13. Build God, Then We'll Talk