The Handsome Family – The Bottomless Hole (Guitar)

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My name I don’t remember though I hail from Ohio

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I had a wife and children, good tires on my car

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What took me from my home and put me in the earth

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Was the mouth of the deep dark hole I found behind my barn

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We’d been filling it with garbage as long as you could count

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Kitchen scraps and dead cows, tractors broken down

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But never did I hear one thing hit the ground

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And slowly I came to fear, that this was a bottomless hole

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I went out behind the barn and stared down in that hole

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Late into the evening, my mind would not let go

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So I got out my ropes and a rusty claw foot tub

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And I rigged myself a chariot to ride down in that hole

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My wife she did help me, she fed me down the ropes

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And then I sank away from the surface of this world

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When the last rope pulled tight, I had not reached the end

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And in anger I swung there down in that dark abyss

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So I got out my knife, I told my wife goodbye

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I cut loose from the ropes and fell on down that hole

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And still I am there falling down in this evil pit

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But until I hit the bottom I won’t believe it’s bottomless