The Handsome Family es un dúo de country alternativo y Americana, integrado por Brett Sparks y Rennie Sparks, formado en Chicago, Illinois pero actualmente residenciado en Albuquerque, Nuevo México. Brett y Rennie son marido y mujer. El grupo ha adquirido cierta relevancia recientemente con su séptimo álbum, Singing Bones (2003), ya que el corte “Far from any road” fue utilizado en la cabecera de la primera temporada de la serie de HBO True Detective.
THE BOTTOMLESS HOLE
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
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 am there falling down in this evil pit
But until I hit the bottom, I won’t believe it’s bottomless