The Temptation of Adam

"If this was the cold war we could keep each other warm,"

I said

On the first occasion that I met Marie

We were crawling through the hatch that was

The missle silo door

And I don't think that she really thought that much of me

I never had to learn to love her

Like I learned to love the bomb

She just came along and started to ignore me

But as we waited for the big one

I started singing her my songs

And I think she started feeling something for me

We passed the time with crosswords

That she thought to bring inside

"What five letters spell apacolypse?" she asked me

I wandered over saying WWIII

She smiled and we both knew that she misjudged me

Oh Marie it was so easy to fall in love with you

It felt almost like a home of sorts or something

And you would keep the warhead missle silo good as new

And I'd watch you with my thumb above the button

Then one night you found me in my army issue cott

You told me of your flash of inspiration

You said "Fusion was the broken heart that's lonely's only thought"

And all night long you drove me wild with your equations

Oh Marie do you remember all the time we used to take

We'd make our love then ramsack the rations

I think of you leaving now in the avalanche cascades

My eyes get washed away in chain reactions

Oh Marie if you would stay we could stick pins in the map

Of all the places you thought that love would be found

But I would only need one pin to show where my love is at

In a top secret location 300 feet under the ground

We could hold each other close

We'd stay up every night

Look up into the dark and pretend it's the night sky

Pretend this giant missle is a old oak tree instead

And I'd carve your 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 surface

So at night while you are sleeping

I hold you closer just because

As our time grows short I grow a little nervous

So I think about the big one

WWIII

Would we ever really care the world had ended?

You could hold me here forever

Like you're holding me tonight

I think about that big red button and I'm tempted