Glen Phillips The Hole lyrics

Behind the house
The ground has opened up
And it's so deep, a hole
It's bottom can't be found
It sucks the air inside
And makes quiet sea sounds

We sometimes stand
And linger at the edge
We like to dare each other
How close that we can get
And there's a pact we made
If one should fall the other follows in

Started small with trash and rotten food
And then the neighbors came

With cars and Davenports too
Then the government
Midnight dumps of what we never knew

A letter came the other day
From clear around the globe
It said, "We hope that you're the ones
On the other end of the hole
Could you take a few things back
Our country's getting full"

Behind the house
The ground has opened up