"The Temptation Of Adam" lyrics - JOSH RITTER

"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