Glen Phillips & Toad Lyrics

The hole (Unlucky 7)

Behind the house the ground has opened up, And it's so deep A hole, its 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've made If one should fall The other follows in We started small, trash and rotten food, And then the neighbors came With cars and sofas too And soon the government had 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 is getting full" Behind the house, the ground has opened up