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