[ti:A Summer In Ohio] [ar:Anna Kendrick] [al:The Last Five Years (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Summer in Ohio - Anna Kendrick [00:18.27]I could have a mansion on the hill [00:21.93]I could lease a villa in Seville [00:25.37]But it wouldn't be as nice as a summer in Ohio [00:29.20]With a gay midget named Karl playing Tevye and Porgy [00:40.12]I could wander Paris after dark [00:43.61]Take a carriage ride through Central Park [00:46.81]But it wouldn't be as nice as a summer in Ohio [00:50.62]Where I'm sharing a room with a former stripper and her snake Wayne [00:57.92]I could have a satchel full of dollar bills [01:03.27]Cures for all the nations ills [01:06.63]Pills to make a lion purr [01:12.01]I could be in line to be the British queen [01:17.19]Look like I was seventeen [01:20.71]Still I'm certain I'd prefer to be going slowly batty [01:26.10]Forty miles east of Cincinnati [01:32.22]I could shove an ice pick in my eye [01:35.42]I could eat some fish from last July [01:38.65]But it wouldn't be as awful as a summer in Ohio [01:42.48]Without cable hot water Vietnamese food or you [01:52.06]I saw your book at a Border's in Kentucky [01:55.33]Under a sign that said New and Recommended [01:59.02]I stole a look at your picture on the inside sleeve [02:02.98]And then I couldn't leave [02:07.72]Richard who was with me got uncharacteristically quiet [02:11.12]And he said All things considered [02:12.67]I guess you don't have to buy it [02:14.69]So I smile like Mona Lisa and I lay my Visa down [02:21.85]He wants me he wants me but he ain't gonna get me [02:28.46]I've found my guiding light I tell the stars each night [02:35.67]Look at me look at him [02:39.15]Son of a b**ch I guess I'm doing something right [02:46.40]I finally got something right [02:55.47]No it's not Nirvana but it's on the way [02:59.67]I play Anita at the matinee [03:03.56]Then I'll get on my knees and pray I can state in my next bio [03:09.33]I'm never gonna go back to Ohio [03:14.59]I could chew on tin foil for a spell [03:18.58]I could get a root canal in hell [03:22.32]But it wouldn't be as swell as this summer is gonna be [03:29.68]'Cause the torture is just exquisite [03:33.11]While I'm waiting for you to visit [03:36.52]So hurry up schmuck get unstuck and get on the scene [03:44.01]Love [03:44.30]The midget the stripper Wayne the snake and Mrs Jamie Wellerstein [03:51.27]That's me