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The Bottomless Hole Lyrics

My name, I don't remember
Though I hail from Ohio
I had a wife and children
Good tires on my car
What took me from my home
And put me in the Earth
Was the mouth of a deep dark hole
I found behind my barn

We'd been filling it with garbage
As long as you could count
Kitchen scraps and dead cows
Tractors broken down
But never did I hear one thing hit the ground
And slowly I came to fear
That this was a bottomless hole

I went out behind the barn
And stared down in that hole
Late into the evening
My mind would not let go
So I got out my ropes and a rusty clawfoot tub
And I rigged myself a chariot
To ride down in that hole

My wife, she did help me
She fed me down the ropes
And then I sank away
From the surface of this world
When the last rope pulled tight
I had not reached the end
And in anger, I swung there
Down in that dark abyss

So I got out my knife
I told my wife goodbye
I cut loose from the ropes
And fell on down that hole
And still I'm there falling
Down in this evil pit
But until I hit the bottom
I won't believe it's bottomless
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Cover art for The Bottomless Hole lyrics by Handsome Family, The

This song is about Mel's hole, familiar to anyone who listens to Art Bell's Coast to Coast radio show. It's a supposedly endless hole somewhere in Washington state. Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel's_Hole

Cover art for The Bottomless Hole lyrics by Handsome Family, The

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