Blacklight Sleaze (Featuring Pleasant Gehman)

Sometimes I wonder what I'm doing here In the middle of this time square booth filled with smoke and damp carpet soggy with spilled cheap champagne and the rows of flashing lights and plastic bowls half full of salted peanuts and their discarded shells miserable tired waitresses lousy over-priced drinks I feel sorry for the men sometimes mostly I just feel contempt the men with their fertive movements and blank faces I feel sorry for Stacy her face looks like it's been stepped on her body is like angel food almost too beautiful to look at her boyfriend probably doesn't when he hits her I feel sorry for Lynn with her expensive lingerie cheap dime store wigs trying to hide her identity she's a Yale graduate with a huge student loan debt she hooks a little on the side I feel sorry for Babette with her handed down clip-on hair and large luminous eyes her adorable accent and broken english can't hide her drug habit and predatory nature Sometimes I wonder what I'm doing here dancing naked except for a few sequins lying to men for drink commissions I take their room keys and make promises that I know I won't fullfill We're all victims in one way or another we're all here for different reasons Sometimes I wonder what I'm doing here but I like to sleep all day and stay out all night the idea of a straight job is like the idea of a straight jacket I like buying clothes I like eating in expensive restaurants and taking taxis I'm pretty and intellegent sarcastic and selfish and I'm not going to be doing this forever