Name: If I Fail This Time
Duration: P00H04M07S
Description: My dog , Schroeder (a shih tzu) actually inspired the beginning of this song. I was getting ready to leave him and head to England. I said out loud to him, "If I fail this time, I'll even lose you, I'll lose everything" I immediately picked up my guitar and wrote this song. After so many failures with music and relationships, I thought this was my last chance

If I Fail This Time

from These Unwanted Songs by Mark Allan Jensen

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My dog , Schroeder (a shih tzu) actually inspired the beginning of this song. I was getting ready to leave him and head to England. I said out loud to him, "If I fail this time, I'll even lose you, I'll lose everything" I immediately picked up my guitar and wrote this song. After so many failures with music and relationships, I thought this was my last chance

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if i fail this time
i won't only lose my mind
no, i'd lose everything
and any hope of ever finding something beautiful
i don't know what i'd do
if you ever said you didn't love me too
or if i did anything
to ever make you doubt that this was something magical

it would sure do my head in
if i couldn't see your face again
if i couldn't feel your hands against my skin
i'd drop out of this human race
throw in the towel and accept my fate
cause if i lose now it means i'll never win
i'll never win
If I fail this time

if i break this time
my soul will never spill another rhyme
no, I would fall apart
while the pieces of my heart continue bleeding
if you ever found
that loving me only brings you down
or if I made you cry
and mad you think that I was someone not worth keeping

it would sure to my head in
if i couldn't see your face again
if i couldn't feel your hands against my skin
i'd drop out of this human race
throw in the towel and accept my fate
cause if i lose now it means i'll never win
i'll never win
If I fail this time
so I don't want to fail this time

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from These Unwanted Songs, released January 1, 2014

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Mark Allan Jensen Hudson, Wisconsin

Raised along the Mississippi river near St Louis , MO. , Mark Allan Jensen was exposed to a wide variety of music from the Blues to Old School Rap and everything in between including Christian Rock. He was moved by the soothing sounds of contemporary worship services at a church he attended at a young age, and began to incorporate those haunting melodies and chord progressions into his own writin ... more

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