"Act of Treason" 

Thirty pieces of silver, enough to fill my pockets
Just one bottle of rum to quiet my conscience
If you see me coming, you better step with caution
You backed me into a corner and left me just one option

Ain't no rhyme, ain't no reason
Just an act of treason
Nothing left to believe in
Just an act of treason

I tried to walk the high road, I tried to reconcile
But they put me in chains and gave me no trial
You can call me Ganja, you can call me Judas
But the way I see it there is only one way through this

Ain't no rhyme, ain't no reason
Just an act of treason
Nothing left to believe in
Just an act of treason

Stop looking at my dreams like they're just empty threats
Because the tree remembers what the axe forgets
I'll lay a kiss on your cheek, brother, it's time to say goodbye
I always did feel better playing the bad guy

Ain't no rhyme, ain't no reason
Just an act of treason
Nothing left to believe in
Just an act of treason

Ain't no rhyme, ain't no reason
Just an act of treason
Nothing left to believe in
Just an act of treason

(words and music by Jesse Jungkurth, copyright 2013)

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"Fantasy World"

What color is the sky where you're from?
Tell me that the grass is still green
Where does all this illusion end?
The truth has yet to be seen

You're living in a fantasy world
The real one just made you cry
You're living in a fantasy world
Where everyone believes your lies

Everybody's out to get you
It seems like no one's on your side
When reality kicked in your door
I guess you needed somewhere to hide

So you built yourself a fantasy world
Because the real one just makes you cry
You built yourself a fantasy world
Where everyone believes your lies

How long can you keep up this pace?
How long before you run out of road?
With all your subterfuge and false alibis
You're so full of shit you're bound to explode

You're living in a fantasy world
The real one just made you cry
You're living in a fantasy world
Where everyone believes your lies

Oh you're living in a fantasy world
You've been there such a long time
Just living in your fantasy world
That you're starting to believe your own lies

(words and music by Jesse Jungkurth, copyright 2013)

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"Burn It Down"

I'm awake now for the first time in my life
You've opened up my eyes and I'm bound to do it right
I've got to go and get it back, yeah, a love for all mankind
There in the darkness where the brightest light does shine
I'm gonna start a fire, I'm gonna set the world ablaze
And live happiness until the end of my days
Because there's an evil in this world, but we can stop it now
Oh honey, let me show you how

Burn it, burn it, burn it down
Burn it, burn it, burn it down
Burn it down, burn it down, burn it down oh yeah
Come on and burn it down

Woke up this morning the chains were lifted off my back
My sins were washed away and I was on the chosen path
I've got to go and get it back, yeah, there's something that I lost
There in the darkness where I was forced to pay the cost
I'm gonna start a fire, I'm gonna set the world alight
And I ain't going down now, not without a fight
Because there's an evil in this world, but we can stop it now
Oh honey, let me show you how

Burn it, burn it, burn it down
Burn it, burn it, burn it down
Burn it down, burn it down, burn it down oh yeah
Come on and burn it down

I'm awake now for the first time in my lifeYou've opened up my eyes and I'm bound to do it right
I've got to go and get it back, yeah, a love for all mankind
There in the darkness where the brightest light does shine
I'm gonna start a fire, I'm gonna set the world ablaze
And live happiness until the end of my days
Because there's an evil in this world, but we can stop it now
Oh honey, let me show you how

Burn it, burn it, burn it down
Burn it, burn it, burn it down
Burn it down, burn it down, burn it down oh yeah
Come on and burn it down

(words and music by Jesse Jungkurth, copyright 2013)

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"Super Cool"

You got those plastic dreads on your balding head
A walking, talking, crying shame
Screaming "Jah Rasta!" you reggae imposter
Giving I and I a bad name

You ain't no sucker, you're nobody's fool
Oh no no, you're super cool

Why would you be yourself if you could be someone else
And make believe that no one knows
But I've looked in your eyes, past your cheap disguise
And seen a goat in lion's clothes

You ain't no sucker, you're nobody's fool
Oh no no, you're super cool

You had an ego like Darth Vader that came along and ate you
And now you think you're some kind of star
Some people hate you, some overrate you,
But I know who you really are

You ain't no sucker, you're nobody's fool
Oh no no, you're super cool

(words and music by Jesse Jungkurth, copyright 2013)

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"Blue Lights"

I was driving down 75, half asleep and barely alive
Moving fast, losing time, got to get back to my baby's side
Almost home, almost gone, if I can just hang on
I see the light, but it ain't the dawn
It's blue lights

Blue lights in my rear view mirror
Time to disappear

I smoking on a big fat blunt, got a sack in the back and another in the front
Pumping some dub on the way to the club, me and my boys and we're on the hunt
Babylon, them always sneaking around, causing strife, upsetting the town
Guns to our head and our heads to the ground, 
Oh yeah, blue lights

Blue lights in my rear view mirror
Time to disappear

Handcuffed in a cop's backseat, my head hung low down in defeat
Do not pass go, head straight to jail, got to find someone to pay my bail
But I'm innocent until you prove me guilty, but you know I'm never free
Everytime I close my eyes all that I see
Are blue lights

Blue lights in my rear view mirror
Time to disappear

(words and music by Jesse Jungkurth and Adrian Lajas, copyright 2013)

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"Back on the Road"

I had a woman in Michigan, but she don't love me no more
So I'm headed south to Georgia where I got me three or four
And then there's Hannah from Panama, she's got to be eighteen now
She keeps saying she's got my child, but I remember pulling out

I said please, let me tell you what I need
Yeah, a shot of bourbon and a bag of weed
Oh, you know that I've got to go
I've just got to get back on the road

I will go and get you a big box of tissues
And we can sit around and talk about all your daddy issues
You Ohio girls are fickle, but man you sure are fine
Come on back to the hotel baby and let me blow your mind

I said please, let me tell you what I need
Yeah, a shot of bourbon and a bag of weed
Oh, you know that I've got to go
I've just got to get back on the road

I had a show in Birmingham, and needed a place to stay
When a quarter ton of ugly, she come rolling up my way
She said she could fit the whole band, and then winked with her crossed eye
I said, "order us up a round of shots, I'm gonna drink you pretty tonight"

I said please, let me tell you what I need
Yeah, a shot of bourbon and a bag of weed
Oh, you know that I've got to go
I've just got to get back on the road

I wanna move to the islands, or the South American mainland
I wanna find some chica to talk dirty to me in a language I don't understand
Or I wish I was a Marley so I wouldn't have to work
I could make a fortune just putting my picture on your t-shirt

I said please, let me tell you what I need
Yeah, a shot of bourbon and a bag of weed
Oh, you know that I've got to go
I've just got to get back on the road

(words and music by Jesse Jungkurth, copyright 2013)

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"Nothing Lasts Forever"

They say the sun someday has to burn out
And you never know how your life will turn out
You're here one day and gone the next
Always counting down towards your last breath
And in the end do we ever learn
The secrets for which our hearts yearn?
We come from dust, to dust we shall return

We've come a long way together
But nothing lasts forever

So when you look at your life, tell me what you see
Did you make iniquity a priority?
Or did you chase the pleasures of the flesh
While filling up your soul with laziness?
Haters gonna hate, sinners gonna sin
Open up your heart and let love in
Step into the fire and be born again

We've come a long way together
But nothing lasts forever

'Cause if we've got just one life to live, don't you wanna make it count?
If we've got just one life to live, don't you wanna make it count?

(words and music by Jesse Jungkurth, copyright 2013)

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"Follow You Down"

Oh captain, my captain
I believe you're misinformed
We all know we're adrift at sea
And headed straight into the storm
You've got a mess on your hands
And there's nothing you can do
Your ship has sprung a leak, my friend
And everybody knows its true

I ain't gonna follow you down
Oh no I ain't gonna follow you down
I'm gonna sit right back and watch you drown
But I ain't gonna follow you down

It's been a long, long time
Since you went anywhere
The worst part it seems to me
Is that you just don't care
There comes a time to stand up
And see what's really real
Your ride is stuck in the mud, my friend
And you're just spinning your wheels

I ain't gonna follow you down
Oh no I ain't gonna follow you down
I'm gonna sit right back and watch you drown
But I ain't gonna follow you down

You're not in this alone
One man can't support the weight
Hurry up and share your load
Before it's too late

I ain't gonna follow you down
Oh no I ain't gonna follow you down
I'm gonna sit right back and watch you drown
But I ain't gonna follow you down

I ain't gonna follow you down
I ain't gonna follow you down
I ain't gonna follow you down
I ain't gonna follow you down

(words and music by Jesse Jungkurth, copyright 2013)

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"Reggae State of Mind"

Rose up this morning in a reggae state of mind
Come without a warning, this reggae state of mind
Pick it up, set it down, walk myself back into town
Get up now, say it loud, help me make it last somehow

I need more, I need more
Give me more of that reggae state of mind

I'm gonna swing my hammer in a reggae state of mind
If I'm down in Alabama, I'm in a reggae state of mind
I'm going left, going right, rock this joint both day and night
Get up now, say it loud, help me make it last somehow

I need more, I need more
Give me more of that reggae state of mind

Well I stumbled through the day in a reggae state of mind
And I slaved to get my pay in a reggae state of mind
I'm gonna pick it up, set it down, walk myself back into to town
Get a beer and stay right here, hope this feeling don't disappear

I need more, I need more
Give me more of that reggae state of mind

I need more, I need more
Give me more of that reggae state of mind

(words and music by Jesse Jungkurth, copyright 2013)

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"Outlaw"

Well I got problems, hear voices in my head
I went to see my doctor and this is what he said
He said, "Listen, only one thing will heal you
You need that sticky, icky, skunky, funky, sweet sinsemilla."

If you've got the pipe, you know I got the light
And if you got the need, I got the weed
We'll all get high tonight

Side effects may include fatigue or cotton mouth
An increased appetite, or a sex drive gone south
Now your best lady, she may up and leave you
For that sticky, icky, skunky, funky cannabis sativa

If you've got the pipe, you know I got the light
And if you got the need, I got the weed
We'll all get high tonight

Now if you're smoking, better watch out for the man
You know he's gonna bring you down, 'cause that's his plan
But I'm going to Washington, gonna stop in Colorado
And get some sticky, icky, skunky, funky marijuana

If you've got the pipe, you know I got the light
And if you've got the need, I got the weed
We'll all get high tonight

(words and music by Jesse Jungkurth, copyright 2013)

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"Please Don't Harsh My Mellow"

Smoking the tree that Jah left for me
Alter the state of my reality
Puffing the pine and I'm feeling so fine
Leaving all my worries behind

Please don't you harsh my mellow
'Cause I just want to take it slow
Please don't you harsh my mellow, yeah
Come on baby let me go

I'm here to bring words I was meant to sing
Let the healing of the nation begin
I don't care if you pull up a chair 
And you help me put this into the air

Please don't you harsh my mellow
'Cause I just want to take it slow
Please don't you harsh my mellow, yeah
Come on baby let me go

I wanna puff in peace, I want to find release
I want to go to that sacred place inside my mind

So come with me, I've got the key
To live in love and harmony
If you don't believe everything that you read
You'll find the truth, it grows like a weed

So please don't you harsh my mellow
I just want to take it slow
Please don't you harsh my mellow, yeah
Come on baby let me go

(words and music by Jesse Jungkurth, copyright 2013)

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"Cecelia"

Good-bye Cecelia, good-bye Cecelia
Good-bye Cecelia, good-bye

I'm afraid that you won't have enough to eat
I'm afraid that you'll wind up on the street
I'm trying to find the positive in this
I know it's out there somewhere, shrouded in the mist


Good-bye Cecelia, good-bye Cecelia
Good-bye Cecelia, good-bye

I'm afraid that you'll wake up all alone
Be cold and scared, out there on your own
I'm trying to find the positive in this
I know it's out there somewhere, shrouded in the mist


Good-bye Cecelia, good-bye Cecelia
Good-bye Cecelia, good-bye

Good-bye Cecelia, good-bye Cecelia
Good-bye Cecelia, good-bye

(words and music by Jesse Jungkurth, copyright 2013)
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