A Virgin Like You

The Ark · In Lust We Trust [2002]

I have never been mean

Never been as bad as it may have seemed

I have never been vile

Never been twisted or unkind



Maybe I'm working too hard

Maybe I'm out of my mind

Maybe there will be a day

'Cause I've been losing my way

For such a very long time

That now I no longer know

Where to go



Oh, I wish I was a virgin

A virgin like you

I wish I had a distance

To put me through

I wish I had a burden

Wish that I had a dream

I wish I was as simple as you seem



Here we go again

When every direction leads to pain

And the one left I know

Is the one that I'm most certain

I don't want to go



Maybe there will be a day

Maybe I'm out of my head

Maybe love wasn't for us

'Cause I've been losing my touch

For such a very long time

That now I no longer know

Very much at all



I wish I was a virgin

A virgin like you

I wish I had a distance

To put me through

I wish I had a burden

Wish that I had a dream

I wish I was as simple as you seem



There was a time when I was a man

And everything was easy to understand

But now I'm floating like a shipwreck

Shrunk to fit in a foreign land



I have never been mean,

Never been as bad as it may have seemed