Escape From Ohio

Singer: Electric Six

Album: Kill

There were 20

maybe 25 of us

Driving out to California in a bus

We were looking for a good time

And a radio station we could trust

Suddenly we heard an angry thud

And our mighty chariot turned into a dud

We were stopped there in our tracks

man

Adjacent to some cows chewing their cud

Lord

please send some mercy down to me

(50 miles south of Bowling Green)

This will clearly never be my scene

(Why does every city start with "C"?)

There's only one sure thing that I know:

I've gotta get out of Ohio

'til then I'll never feel love

They say that what you give's what you're gonna get

It's no wonder everything's gone to shit

'Cause they've given us John Boehner

And you better believe they've given us Jean Schmidt

Now the floodgates of hell have opened wide

That's a bad idea

all politics aside

They're gonna roll out Joe the Plumber

Just to make sure our minds get properly fried

Lord

be merciful and let me die

(50 miles south of Lodi)

Round on both ends and the middle's high

(What's so great about a buckeye?)

Whose might is riptide and undertow

There's no escaping from Ohio!

I'll never get to feel love

(Hey!)

The walls

they're closing in

But I'm just inside of Michigan

The only way that I'll attain 'ya

Is if I get over to Pennsylvania

Except for GBV and Devo

Nothing seems to redeem Ohio

It is the state that killed my love

(Hey!)

Don't you want to come with me

(Hey!)

And make a break for Kentucky?

(Hey!)

I still got something to put in 'ya

(Hey!)

But we'll have to go to West Virginia

And I've heard great things about Indiana

too