If this was the cold war we could keep each other I said on the first occasion that I met We were crawling the hatch that was the missile silo door And I don't think that she really thought much of me
I never had to learn to love her like I to love the bomb She just came along and to ignore me But as we waited for the big one and I started her my songs And I think she started something for me
We the time with crosswords that she thought to bring inside What five letters spell apocalypse?, she me I won her over saying Oh, we smiled and we both knew that she me
Oh Marie, it was so to fall in love with you It felt almost like a of sorts or something And you would keep the warhead missile good as new And I watched you my thumb above the button
Then one you found me in my army issue cot And you told me of your of inspiration You said, "Fusion was the broken that's lonely's only thought" And all night long you drove me wild with your
Oh Marie, do you remember all the we used to take Making love and ramsack the rations I think about you leaving now in the cascades And my eyes get away in chain reactions
Oh Marie, if you would stay and we could pins in the map Of all the places where you thought that love would be And I would only need one pin to show where my is at In a top secret location three hundred feet under the
Oh, we could hold each other close, stay up night Looking up the dark like it's the night sky Pretend this missile is a old oak tree instead Carve our name in hearts the warhead
Oh Marie, there's something tells me just won't work out above our love would live a half life on the surface So at night while you are sleeping, I hold you closer because As our grows short I get a little nervous
So I about the big one, WWIII Would we really care, the world had ended? You could hold me here forever like you're holding me I about that big red button and I'm tempted