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