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 missile 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 'apocalypse?'" she asked me I won her over singing, "W-W-I-I-I” And we smiled and we both knew that she’d 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 missile silo good as new And I watched you with my thumb above the button Then one night you found me in my Army-issue cot And 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 Making love and then ransack the rations? I think about you leaving now and the avalanche cascades And my eyes get washed away in chain reactions Oh, Marie, if you would stay then we could stick pins in the map Of all the places where you thought that love would be found But I would only need one pin to show where my love's at In a top-secret location 300 feet under the ground Oh, we could hold each other close and stay up every night Looking up into the dark like it’s the night sky And pretend this giant missile is an old oak tree instead And carve our name in hearts into the warhead Oh, Marie, there’s 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 get a little nervous Oh, I think about the "Big One," W-W-I-I-I 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 great big button and I’m tempted