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 and 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 WWIII 

Oh, we 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 missile silo good as new 

And I watched you with my thumb above the button 

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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 in the avalanche cascades 

And my eyes get washed away in chain reactions 

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

Of all the places where you thought that love would be found 

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

In a top secret location three hundred feet under the ground 

Oh, we could hold each other close, stay up every night 

Looking up into the dark like it's the night sky 

Pretend this giant missile is a old oak tree instead 

Carve our name in hearts into the warhead 

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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 

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