Josh Ritter – The Temptation Of Adam (Guitar)

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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 don't 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 singing, "W-W-I-I-I"

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Oh we smiled and we both knew that she'd 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 I watched 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 that's lonely's 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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We'd 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 love's at

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In a top-secret location 300 feet under the ground

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

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Looking up into the dark like it's 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, there's something tells me things just won't 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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Oh, 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 you're holding me tonight

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I think about that great big button and I'm tempted