Sounds to me as though it's someone who constantly sneaks away from her boring day life. She gets in her car and drives to a place even she sees as vile and ugly, to drink and watch dancers. It seems as though she finds her "cheap romance", affection for the night that means nothing. "don't pretend you feel" "don't pretend that this is real"- pretty much means that it all means nothing to her and she's asking the man she takes for the night not to try to pretend that it means something to him.
Sounds to me as though it's someone who constantly sneaks away from her boring day life. She gets in her car and drives to a place even she sees as vile and ugly, to drink and watch dancers. It seems as though she finds her "cheap romance", affection for the night that means nothing. "don't pretend you feel" "don't pretend that this is real"- pretty much means that it all means nothing to her and she's asking the man she takes for the night not to try to pretend that it means something to him.