In Full Regalia

The Ark In Full Regalia Lyrics
1.Take A Shine To Me

I've been hangin' around
For a year at the lost and found
Waiting for a chance to be seen
Honey, take a shine to me

You've been singin' along
For a while to the same ol' song
Babe, you gotta change your reel
Honey, take a shine to me

Come on! Take a shine to me
Come on! Take a shine to me
Come on! Take a shine, - Take a shine to me!

Gotta tell you something
That's gonna put your mind all up side down
Maybe that's just what you need?
Honey, take a shine to me

And you've been doin' alright
With way too little for way too long
- Don't mind all the other geeks!

Honey, take a shine take a little shine right to me
Come on! Take a shine to me
Come on! Take a shine to me
Come on! Take a shine, - Take a shine to me!

I've been hangin' around
For a year at the lost and found
Waiting for a chance to be seen
Honey, take a shine (take a shine), take a shine
Take a shine (take a shine), take a shine
Come on!

Come on! Take a shine to me
Come on! Take a shine to me
Come on! Take a shine, - Take a shine to me!

Come on! Take a shine to me
Come on! Take a shine to me
Come on! Take a shine, - Take a shine to me!


2.Superstar

It doesn't matter where you are
If you are a superstar
It doesn't matter who you are
If you are a superstar

And when you take them on
You're gonna take 'em all too far
It doesn't matter who you are
If you are a superstar

It doesn't matter where you've been
If you travel in a fast machine
It doesn't matter where you've been
If you travel in a fast machine

And when you take them on
You're gonna take 'em all too far
It doesn't matter where you are
If you are a superstar

It doesn't matter where you are
If you only know two chords on your guitar
You gotta go for what you can do
And you will do alright

It doesn't matter where you are
If you only got two songs on your repertoire
You gotta go for what you can do
And you will do alright

It doesn't matter who they see
If you are the queen bee
It doesn't matter who they see
If you are the queen bee

And when you take them on
You're gonna take 'em all too far
It doesn't matter where you are
If you are a superstar

It doesn't matter who you are
If you only know two chords on your guitar
You gotta go for what you can do
And you will do alright

It doesn't matter who you are
If you only got two songs on your repertoire
You gotta go for what you can do
And you will do alright

It doesn't matter who you are
If you only know two chords on your guitar
You gotta go for what you can do
And you will do alright

That's what you are
A superstar...

You've got the power
You're gonna make it alright

Ooooh

You've got the power
You're gonna make it alright


3.Stay With Me

Lyricist:Jens Andersson, Martin Karl Axen Persson, Mikael Jepson, Lars
Henrik Ljungberg, Ola Salo, Sylvester David Schlegel

I didn't mean to cause you pain
I didn't mean to cause you trouble
I never meant in anyway
To be a weight on your mind

And all this time
I've been so goddamn stubborn
All this time
So selfish and unkind

Stay with me, stay with me
Stay with me, stay with me
What in the world could make me feel so real?
Only you can make my life worth living

All this time I've been afraid
That you would see through me
That beneath the tricks and traits
There would be nothing to love

And no one has ever
Reached so deep into me
No one has taken me
So high above

Stay with me, stay with me
Stay with me, stay with me
What in the world could make me feel so real?
Only you can make my life worth living

And it's cold outside
And I'm on the streets tonight
If this pain is just an illusion
Will you show me what's real tonight?

Oh, stay with me, stay with me
Stay with me, stay with me
What in the world could make me feel so real?
Only you can make my life worth living
Oh, stay with me


4.Singing 'Bout The City

Lyricist:Jens Andersson, Martin Karl Axen Persson, Mikael Jepson, Lars
Henrik Ljungberg, Ola Salo, Sylvester David Schlegel

I was born and raised with the cross in my face
And a mind that was set for pity
Not fully grown I was left all alone
That's the time I set my eyes on the city, yeah

Where no cold wind sweep at a willow's weep
And no singing in the treetops puts a child to sleep
Where the ghosts and creeps, sad eyed roam the streets
And the best minds turning tricks for that sad and angry fix

But now I'm through, I'm through
I'm through, I'm through, I'm through
Singing 'bout the city
(Singing 'bout the city, singing 'bout the city)

I was all knocked down as I came to town
I was smug as a bug and pretty
I was led to believe that a little less self-esteem
Was required to survive in the city, yeah

In the high-end streets where the faces meet
Who are daring for a sharing on the toilet seats
But I've had my fill of cheap boudoir thrills
Hallelujah, I am coming, bring the fattened calf and sing

Now I'm through, I'm through
I'm through, I'm through, I'm through
Singing 'bout the city
(Singing 'bout the city, singing 'bout the city)

In the summertime in the dry hot town
Sun is high and ambition is low
When the sewers seethe there's no air to breathe
And when no place feels like home

In the summertime in the countryside
Where the birches and long grass grow
And the small birds sing and the church-bell ring
And the gentle warm winds blow

I guess, I really should have known
There's only one place left to go
This time I'm really coming, coming home

I'm gonna spread my wings, gonna leave everything
Far behind that's unsound and shitty
I'm free at last, it's all in the past
Fooling 'round like a clown in the city, yeah

Where no pine and spruce lend a home to the moose
And no brown bears sleep and no rabbits snooze
In the open wild you get warm and mild
Turning playboys to the plough boys that they are inside

Where the green crops grow and the rivers flow
Where lakes glitter, small birds twitter
Oh, I sure could think of worse
It's the Springsteen curse but this time it's in reverse
Life's a pity in the city hell
What does Bruce know about spruce?

Oh, I'm through, I'm through
I'm through, I'm through, I'm through
I'm through, I'm through, I'm through
Singing 'bout the city, yeah


5.Have You Ever Heard A Song

Have you ever heard a song that you wish would never end?
Did you ever have a conversation with a real good friend
That you wish would just go on and on and on forever more?
Then you know what I'm looking for
Then you know what I'm looking for

Did you ever have a taste in your mouth of something new?
In the beginning it was strange, until suddenly it grew
Into something that you knew you didn't want to live without
Then you know what I'm talking about
Then you know what I'm talking about

Did you ever have a dream, where you actually could fly?
And by some odd lovely reason, didn't ask for reasons why
And you'd wake up feeling strong and glad to meet a brand new
day
Then you know what I'm trying to say
Then you know what I'm trying to say

La la la laaa, la la laaaa
La la laaaa, la la laaa, la la
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah, ooh yeah, ah

Well I don't believe in class, and I don't believe in taste
I believe in simple happiness, and I believe in avoiding waste
I believe in endless winter nights with good friends and good
wine
I believe in endless summer nights, good friends and feeling
fine

La la la la la la la, la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la la la la la la la la
Oooh ooh aah


6.Publicity Seeking Rockers

Lyricist:Jens Andersson, Martin Karl Axen Persson, Mikael Jepson, Lars
Henrik Ljungberg, Ola Salo, Sylvester David Schlegel

Publicity seeking rockers
What are they up to today?
Publicity seeking rockers
Will they claim that they are gay?

Some works had true potential
They could pin us to the floor
But all that rabble-rousing razzmatazz
We've seen it all before

I've been stunned, I've been shunned
And I haven't seen the sun for a long, long time
When will I see it again?

I've been lost, I've been tossed
I've been paying a quite considerable cost
For my brief moment of fame

But now I'm up and ready again
Another fifteen minutes of shame
To be used and produced

Publicity seeking rockers
They used to be regular blokes
Publicity seeking rockers
Now they say they're hooked on coke

Some shows were worth attending
They could kill us with a song
But all that rabble-rousing razzmatazz
Oh, send them back to where they belong

I've been in, I've been out
I've been 'round and about
I've been a teenage shout until it got outta hand

I've been slabbed, I've been stabbed
I've been recently half-heartedly rehabbed
It's time to start up the band

And I will look a new kind of man
With a leather-clad bullshitter band
To abuse and confuse

Publicity seeking rockers
Publicity seeking rockers
Say have they lost all their nerve?
Publicity seeking rockers
Will they get what they deserve?

Some words had truthful vengeance
Then the ceiling flew away
But all that rabble-rousing razzmatazz
Can't someone make them go away?


7.I'll Have My Way With You, Frankie

Frankie was a doughboy, playing tambourine
Looked like he'd been doin' time
Always very cheerful, a dimple in his chin
A trademark crocodile smile
All of a sudden he was everybody's friend
Among those with money to spend

And he'd come to me being all sugar in my face
Come to me being all sugar in my face
I'll have my way with you, Frankie
I'll have my way with you, Frankie
I'll have my way with you, »Frankie boy«

Frankie was a crooner, a karaoke king
»My way« was his pièce de résistence
Working his magic, doing his thing
When he saw my sister dance
All of a sudden they were both out of sight
'Til my sister came a-running with tears in her eyes

And then he comes to me being all sugar in my face
Comes to me being all sugar in my face
I'll have my way with you, Frankie
I'll have my way with you, Frankie
I'll have my way with you, »Frankie boy«

And now
Your end is nigh
Your time to cry
Your final curtain

Tonight
I'll make it clear
I'll put an end
To all your hurting
I'll have my way with you, Frankie
I'll have my way with you, Frankie
I'll have my way with you, »Frankie boy«
Oh, »Frankie boy«


8.All Those Days

All those days
That I stole from you
Some day I'll give them right back to you

All those days
That I stole from you
Some day I'll give them right back to you

'Cause you didn't want me that way
And I wouldn't walk away
But all those days
That I stole from you
Some day I'll give them right back to you

All those days
That I stole from you
Some day I'll give them right back to you

'Cause you didn't want me to walk away
And I wouldn't anyway
But all those days
That I stole from you
Some day I'll give them right back to you
Some day I'll give them right back to you
Some day I'll give them right back to you
Some day I'll give them right back to you


9.Hygiene Squad

Lyricist:Jens Andersson, Martin Karl Axen Persson, Mikael Jepson, Lars
Henrik Ljungberg, Ola Salo, Sylvester David Schlegel

My momma made me join the hygiene squad
The money's bad and the hours are odd
They make me work double and they make me work hard
That's how they're doin' business at the hygiene squad

My momma made me join the hygiene squad
I'm doing my shift with a guy named Claude
We're staking out a baker, we suspect is a fraud
That's how we spend our pastime at the hygiene squad

And in the summertime when the weather is damp
My momma sent me off to the hygiene camp
We're fifty gangster boys living in a row of tents
I've used up all the Kleenex and the money that you sent

Take me back, momma, I won't fuss and fight
Please, don't make me stay 'til Friday's talent night
Last week some German showed us how to sterilize cod
That's how we let our hair down at the hygiene squad

My momma made me join the hygiene squad
On the night shift you mustn't lower your guard
The things you see makes you want to shout, oh god
But why did momma make me join the hygiene squad?

And in the summertime when the weather is damp
My daddy sent me off to the hygiene camp
We're fifty gangster boys living in a row of tents
I've used up all the Kleenex and the money that you sent

Take me back, momma, I won't fuss and fight
Please, don't make me stay 'til Friday's talent night
Last week some sucker showed us how to sterilize cod
That's how we let our hair down at the hygiene squad

My, my, my, my, my
My momma made me join the hygiene squad
The money's bad and the hours are odd
They make me work double and they make me work hard
That's how they're doin' business at the hygiene squad

(They make me work double and they make me work hard)
That's how we let our hair down at the hygiene squad
(They make me work double and they make me work hard)
You see, my momma made me join the hygiene squad


10.The Red Cap

I see you're not wearing
Your red cap anymore
Well, I heard someone say
You thought it was getting too small

Well, I wish I knew how to alter it
But I don't know how to sew
So if you'd like to wear it
Then I guess it's all up to you

Standing with your red cap on the barricades
I didn't like you all that much before
But now since you've stopped wearing it
I dislike you even more

I've heard you've not played the guitar
For fifteen years, soon
Well, it's hard, hard to play the guitar
When it's way outta tune

Well, I wish I knew how to tune it
But I haven't got the ear
So if someone's going to do it
Then it's you again, I fear

Standing playing guitar on the barricades
I didn't like you all that much before
But now since you've stopped playing it
I dislike you even more

I've heard that you're not singing
Songs anymore
But actually I don't believe you when you say
It's 'cause your throat is sore

You better open up your ear
'Cause there's a new song coming in
And if you pick, pick up the tune
Maybe even I will join in

Standing singing songs upon the barricades
I didn't like you all that much before
But now since you've let your dear songs die out
I dislike you even more

Standing with your red cap on the barricades
I didn't like you all that much before
But now since you've stopped wearing it
I dislike you even more

I see you're not wearing your red cap anymore