“What five letters spell apocalypse?”, she asked me
Then one night you found me in my army issue cot
I think about you leaving now in the avalanche cascades
So at night while you are sleeping, I hold you closer just because
That our love would live a half life on the surface
We were crawling through the hatch that was the missile silo door
So I think about the big one, WWIII
And I would only need one pin to show where my love is at
Of all the places where you thought that love would be found
Making love and then ramsack the rations
We passed the time with crosswords that she thought to bring inside
And I don't think that she really thought that much of me
In a top secret location three hundred feet under the ground
Oh Marie, it was so easy to fall in love with you
It felt almost like a home of sorts or something
Would we ever really care, the world had ended?
Oh, we smiled and we both knew that she misjudged me
She just came along and started to ignore me
Oh Marie, do you remember all the time we used to take
I won her over saying WWIII
Oh Marie, if you would stay and we could stick pins in the map
And all night long you drove me wild with your equations
Oh Marie, there's something tells me things just won't work out above
And I think she started feeling something for me
Carve our name in hearts into the warhead
And my eyes get washed away in chain reactions
Looking up into the dark like it's the night sky
You said, "Fusion was the broken heart that's lonely's only thought"
You could hold me here forever like you're holding me tonight
As our time grows short I get a little nervous
I never had to learn to love her like I learned to love the bomb
And you told me of your flash of inspiration
And you would keep the warhead missile silo good as new
Pretend this giant missile is a old oak tree instead
But as we waited for the big one and I started singing her my songs
And I watched you with my thumb above the button
Oh, we could hold each other close, stay up every night
