Lost Cause - Doug Segree

I took the midnight path In the aftermath Tearing out the sutures Is a new way back To a broken past Just our broken future? I heard you tore it all down Destroyed the world we found Are we a lost cause Or are we just lost 'cause We won't be the future we refuse to see? And if I'm your lost cause It'll be your lost 'cause You won't see me as I am, I'm not the enemy I'll be your lost cause Do you remember us On the late-night bus Taking everything for granted? You said it's scary with the lights on That my love songs are fight songs But my punches never landed I heard you tore it all down Destroyed the world we found The world we found Are we a lost cause Or are we just lost 'cause We won't be the future we refuse to see? And if I'm your lost cause It'll be your lost 'cause You won't see me as I am, I'm not the enemy I'll be your lost cause Are we a lost cause? Are we just lost 'cause We never see the future we refuse to be? And if I'm your lost cause It'll be your lost 'cause You won't see me as I am, the possibility That I'm not the enemy I'll be your lost cause

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, that 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