The Bottomless Hole Lyrics - Singing Bones - Handsome Family

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 claw-foot 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 

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

And in anger I swung there, down in that dark abyss