If this was the cold war we could keep each warm I on the first occasion that I met Marie We were crawling through the 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 learned to the bomb She came along and started to ignore me But as we waited for the big one and I started singing her my And I think she started something for me
We passed the time with crosswords that she thought to inside What letters spell apocalypse?, she asked me I won her saying WWIII Oh, we smiled and we both knew that she me
Oh Marie, it was so easy to fall in love you It felt almost like a home of or something And you would keep the missile silo good as new And I watched you with my thumb above the
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 me wild with your equations
Oh Marie, do you all the time we used to take Making love and then ramsack the I think you leaving now in the avalanche cascades And my eyes get washed away in chain
Oh Marie, if you would stay and we could pins in the map Of all the where you thought that love would be found And I would only need one pin to show where my is at In a top secret location hundred feet under the ground
Oh, we hold each other close, stay up every night Looking up into the dark like the night sky Pretend this giant missile is a old oak tree our name in hearts into the warhead
Oh Marie, something tells me things just won't work out above That our love would live a half life on the So at while you are sleeping, I hold you closer just because As our time short I get a little nervous
So I about the big one, WWIII Would we ever care, the world had ended? You hold me here forever like you're holding me tonight I think about big red button and I'm tempted