Standard (EADGBE)

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 dont 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 spelled apocalypse she asked me

I won her over saying w-w-i-i-i

Oh she smiled and we both knew that she misjudged me

Oh Marie it was so easy to fall in love with you

Fell almost like a home of swords or something

And you would keep the warhead missile silo good as knew

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 thats lonelys 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

Wed make our love and then ransack the rations

I think about you leaving now in the avalanche cascades

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 loves at

In a top secret location 300 feet under the ground

Oh we could hold each other close

We'd stay up every night

Looking up into the dark like its the night sky

Pretend this giant missile is an old oak tree instead

And Id carve your name in hearts into the warhead

Oh Marie theres something tells me things just wont work out at all

That our love would live a half-life on the surface

So at night while your 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

W-w-i-i-i

Would we ever really care the world had ended?

Your could hold me here forever

Like youre holding me tonight

I think about that big red button and Im tempted