Zero-Dark-Thirty
Lyrics by Robert Peterson ©

I almost gave you a phone call
at zero-dark-thirty this morning
I’d been up all night, not feeling too right
and the wallpaper got a bit boring
There’s this place on the bed where your head used to lie
and seeing you there always seemed right
Now it holds a big empty and although I try
I just can’t sleep without you tonight
The sheets are all tangled and twisted
the result of my failure to sleep
so I finally surrendered the notion
and released my heart so it could weep
This obsession of mine on this absence of yours
surely stretches my fabric of time
while it might pass quickly in the world that you’re in
it’s sure passing slowly in mine

Can I be enough to fill up your heart
even when I can’t always be near
or will I come up short of some unknown measure
and manifest my greatest fear?
Tomorrow’s uncertain, and I have no answers
I don’t have a clue what to do
It’d be so much easier, a voice says inside
if I could do it with my arms full of you
Should I be the person I am here and now
or the person I think I could be?
Can I rise from this fear to a higher ideal
and change my own reality?
The choice falls to me, I accept it as mine
and I’ll do my best right from the start
The one thing I’m sure of I’ve known since I met you
I can’t get you out of my heart

I almost gave you a phone call
at zero-dark-thirty this morning