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 spelt “apocalypse” she asked me
Oh Marie, it was so easy to fall in love with you
It felt almost like home of sorts or something
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
Do you remember all the time we used to take
Makin’ 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
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 three hundred feet under the ground
We could hold each other close and stay up every night
Looking up in the dark like it’s the night sky
Pretend this giant missile is an old oak tree instead
And carve our name in hearts into the warhead
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
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 the great big button and I’m tempted
- The Temptation of Adam by Josh Ritter
Beautiful song. Thank you for the suggestion Nathan :)