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 saying "W.W.I.I.I."
She 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'd watch 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

We'd make our 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 heart's at
In a top secret location three hundred feet under the ground


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

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 look at that great big red button and I'm tempted