Name: I Don't Know
Duration: P00H04M06S
Description: As someone who grew up in a poverty situation with emotional and sometimes physical abuse, the phrase "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" never settled with me. This song is about being lost in a world of optimistic people and not fitting in or ever finding the "answers" they talk about.

I Don't Know

by Mark Allan Jensen

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As someone who grew up in a poverty situation with emotional and sometimes physical abuse, the phrase "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" never settled with me. This song is about being lost in a world of optimistic people and not fitting in or ever finding the "answers" they talk about.

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Yes, I'm alive
but i don't know for how much longer anymore
some people say
what doesn't kill you makes you stronger
but i don't know

cause my dreams; they won't come true
and it seems that now neither will you;
neither will you

I'm dying here
trying to pretend i'll be alright
but i don't know
my fear keeps growing stronger every night
in my soul

and my dreams; they won't come true
and it seems that now neither will you;
neither will you

well i know it's all my fault
that i'll never see your face
'cause i can't seem to keep my feet
standing still in one place

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released December 5, 2013

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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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