The Temptation of Adam

“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 heart'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 into the dark like it's the night sky and pretend this giant missile is an old oak tree instead, and carve our name in hearts into the warhead.

Oh Marie 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 look at that great big red button and I'm tempted.”
-- Josh Ritter, The Temptation of Adam