Love's the Only House

I was standin' in the grocery store line

The one they marked express

When this woman came through with about twenty-five things

And I said, "Don't you know that more is less?"

She said, "This world is movin' so fast

I just get more behind every day"

And every morning, when I make my coffee

I can't believe my life's turned out this way

All I could say was

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain

He was walkin' by the other day and I said

"Hey, baby, how you been?"

Yeah, I got me a little girl, now and she's four years old

And she's got her daddy's little grin

And you only wanted what you can't have

And, baby, you can't have me now

I gave my heart to another

Yeah, I'm a mother and he's a father

And we're a family and we've got each other

And I found out the hard way that

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain

You drive three miles from all this prosperity

Down, across the river, and you see a ghetto there

And we got children walkin' around with guns

And they got knives and drugs and pain to spare

And here I am in my clean white shirt

With a little money in my pocket and a nice, warm home

And we got teenagers walkin' around in a culture of darkness

Livin' together, alone

All I can say is

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain

And I can't explain it

And I can't understand

But I'll come down and get my hands dirty

And together we'll make a stand

Some will cross a parking lot, some band's playin' outta tune

City streets are gonna burn if we don't do something soon

And señorita can't quit cryin'

Baby's due, now, any day

Don Juan left, got sick of tryin'

No one there to show him the way

She came down to the grocery store and

She said, "I, I wanna buy a little carton of milk

But I don't have any money"

I said, "Hey, I'll cover you, honey

'Cause the pain's gotta go somewhere"

Yeah, the pain's gotta go someplace

So come on down to my house

Don't you know that

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain

Don't you know that

Love's the only house? (Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world)

Yeah (Love's the only house big enough for all the pain)

Yeah