The Temptation Of Adam chords by Josh Ritter

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Josh Ritter - The Temptation of Adam
Capo 4

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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 spelled apocalypse, she asked me
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I won her over saying ?W-W-I-I-I?
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Oh she smiled and we both knew that she misjudged me
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Oh Marie it was so easy to fall in love with you
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Fell almost like a home of swords or something
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And you would keep the warhead missile silo good as new
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And I'd 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 that?s lovely?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 in the avalanche cascades
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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
But I would only need one pin to show where my loves 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, We'd stay up every night
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Looking up into the dark like it?s the night sky
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Pretend this giant missile is an old oak tree instead
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And I?d carve your name & 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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So 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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