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I Know It Now

from Alone for a While by Holly Frost

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How quickly you did pluck me up,
powerful enough to crush me
And it mightn’t have hurt half as much,
cept for the knowing that you loved me.
O! If it were only just some silly, simple, light, little folly:
a pretty empty-headed marionette, and her Great Svengali.
I am not just one among your flock of blue little starlings,
I no longer run amok one of your sad and brittle darlings,
For my arms are open wide, and no more do you hold sway,
So just this once I’d like to share what I always longed to say:

I wish I could have told you just how much I cared.
You might as well have been the moon, and I the tide.
You’d push and pull and shine, and I’d swell, and break, and bide,
never seeing all the force I’d held inside.
I wish I could have told you how you hurt me so.
You might as well have been the sun, and I the snow.
You’d glare, and flare, and burn. I would melt, and then return,
forgetting all the while my own glow.

I couldn’t yet speak to the sting,
beholden to my broken wing.
The dark of night so heavy and my perch so high.
But finally my moment’s nigh!
The dawn has come, my eyes are dry.
It’s time for this little bluebird to fly...

I wish I would have noticed
you were not some handsome prince,
just a big bad wolf who’s hungry on the prowl,
And that I am no lost lamb, I’m just fine the way I am.
I didn’t know it then, but I know it now.
I couldn’t yet speak to the sting, beholden to my broken wing. The dark of night so heavy and my perch so high.
I couldn’t yet speak to the sting,
beholden to my broken wing.
The dark of night so heavy and my perch so high.
But finally my moment’s nigh!
The dawn has come, my eyes are dry.
It’s time for this little nightingale to fly...

I wish I would have noticed
that neither had need for the other,
recognized what I had always felt somehow...
I’m on my way- it’s true, and I’ll do alright without you.
I didn’t know it then, I should’ve seen it then,
I didn’t know it then, but I sure as hell know now.

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from Alone for a While, released August 6, 2021
written by Holly Frost

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Holly Frost Austin, Texas

Holly Frost is a singer-songwriter paying tribute to music from the past through unique renditions of classic songs as well as tin-pan-alley-inspired original compositions. Her eclectic musical background and charming voice blend jazz, folk, cabaret, and thoughtful pop in a way you've never heard before. ... more

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