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 don¹t 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 ³apocalypse² she
asked me I won her over saying ³W.W.I.I.I.² She smiled
and we both knew that she¹d 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
I¹d 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 that¹s lonely¹s 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
We¹d 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 heart¹s 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 it¹s 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 there¹s something tells me things just won¹t
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 you¹re holding me tonight I look at that
great big red button and I¹m tempted?