Josh Ritter - The Temptation Of Adam

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if this was the cold war we could keep each other warm
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i said on the first occasion that i met marie
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we were crawling through the hatch that was the missile silo door
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and i dont think that she really thought that much of me
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i never had to learn to love her like i learned to love the bomb
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she just came along and started to ignore me
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but as we waited for the big one i started singing her my songs
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and i think she started feeling something for me

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we passed the time with crosswords that she thought to bring inside
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what five letters spell apocalypse she asked me
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i won her over saying w . w . i . i . i .
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she smiled and we both knew that shed misjudged me
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oh marie it was so easy to fall in love with you
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it felt almost like a home of sorts or something
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and you would keep the warhead missile silo good as new
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and id watch you with my thumb above the button

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then one night you found me in my army issue cot
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and you told me of your flash of inspiration
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you said fusion was the broken heart thats lonelys only thought
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and all night long you drove me wild with your equations
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oh marie do you remember all the time we used to take
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wed make our love and then ransack the rations
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i think about you leaving now and the avalanche cascades
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and my eyes get washed away in chain reactions

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oh marie if you would stay then we could stick pins in the map
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of all the places where you thought that love would be found
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but i would only need one pin to show where my hearts at
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in a top secret location three hundred feet under the ground
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we could hold each other close and stay up every night
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looking up into the dark like its the night sky
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and pretend this giant missile is an old oak tree instead
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and carve our name in hearts into the warhead

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oh marie theres something tells me things just wont work out above
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that our love would live a half – life on the surface
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so at night while you are sleeping i hold you closer just because
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as our time grows short i get a little nervous
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i think about the big one , w . w . i . i . i .
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would we ever really care the world had ended
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you could hold me here forever like youre holding me tonight
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i look at that great big red button and im tempted!