If was the cold war we could keep each other warm I said on the occasion that I met Marie We crawling through the hatch that was the missile silo door And I don't think she really thought that much of me
I had to learn to love her like I learned to love 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 feeling for me
We passed the time crosswords that she thought to bring inside five letters spell apocalypse?, she asked me I won her over WWIII Oh, we and we both knew that she misjudged me
Oh Marie, it was so easy to fall in with you It felt almost a home of sorts or something And you would keep the warhead silo good as new And I watched you my thumb above the button
Then one night you me in my army issue cot And you told me of flash of inspiration You said, "Fusion was the broken heart that's only thought" And all night long you drove me with your equations
Oh Marie, do you remember all the we used to take Making love and then ramsack the I think about you now in the avalanche cascades And my eyes get away in chain reactions
Oh Marie, if you would and we could stick pins in the map Of all the places where you that love would be found And I only need one pin to show where my love is at In a top secret location three hundred feet under the
Oh, we could hold other close, stay up every night up into the dark like it's the night sky Pretend this missile is a old oak tree instead Carve our name in hearts into the
Oh Marie, there's something tells me things won't work out above our love would live a half life on the surface So at night while you are sleeping, I you closer just because As our time grows short I get a nervous
So I think the big one, WWIII Would we ever really care, the had ended? You could me here forever like you're holding me tonight I think about that big red and I'm tempted