As she sheds her skin on stage
I'm seated 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 [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/p/panic_at_the_disco/but_its_better_if_you_do.html ]
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
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
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
The guy wants the girl to be jealous and to forget her so he goes to a stripclub thinking thats what men do when they're mad at their woman but he's being naive b/c he would "never be caught dead" there and he's not forgetting her. And he's saying isn't this "where you want me", to sulk about you leaving me?
But It's Better If You Do lyrics
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by Unregistered on Dec 8th 2011 4:11 pm
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The question isn't what happens in the song it what is the meaning.
I think the songs about the decisions we make and how lies and the bad things we do are really just us being dumb. Like when he says "praying for love in a lapdance/and paying in nivety
You people who are refering to "the boyfriend" as brendon, do know that ryan ross was the lyricist (and guitarist) of panic! Until he left just very recently, right? Brendon didn't write the lyrics xd so i think by "the boyfriend", you mean ryan.
I also think that the part where he says "isn't this exactly where you like me? " because the girlfriend suspected that he would be here, which he was.
That's true.. And ryan said that he was going through a breakup wen he was writing that and lying... And this song is about being at a strip club and really liking it cuz he said that he thinks they are perverted...
This song is about the boyfriend(brendon) going to a stripclub but lying to his girlfriend about it and he sings in the band at the stripclub and then his gf relizes that her bf is there and then the cops break in and aresst brendon and the girl and they end up in the cop car together
P. S. Brendon manhandles that cop in the video at the end lol atleast that is what he said