The Hole - glen phillips

[00:16.85]Behind the house
[00:20.07]The ground has opened up
[00:21.75]And it's so deep, a hole
[00:26.60]It's bottom can't be found
[00:28.86]It sucks the air inside and makes quiet sea sounds
[00:42.95]We sometimes stand
[00:46.02]And linger at the edge
[00:48.54]We like to dare each other how close that we can get
[00:54.92]And there's a pact we made, if one should fall, the other follows in.
[01:31.64]Started small with trash and rotten food
[01:37.08]And then the neighbors came with cars and diving boards too
[01:44.32]Then the government, midnight dumps of what we never knew
[02:13.68]A letter came the other day from clear around the globe
[02:19.79]It said œwe hope that you're the ones on the other end of the hole
[02:26.94]Could you take a few things back, our country's getting full
[03:12.29]Behind the house, the ground has opened up...