Love's the Only House

Album: Emotion (1999)
Charted: 42
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  • I was standing in the grocery store line
    The one they marked express
    When this woman came through with about 25 things
    And I said don't you know that more is less
    She said this world is moving so fast
    I just get more behind with 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 walking by the other day and I said
    Hey baby how you been?
    Yeah I got me a little girl now and she's 4 years old
    And she's got her daddy's little grin
    And you only want 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 walking around with guns
    And they got knives with 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, and 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
    Somewhere cross the parking lot some bands playin' out of tune
    City streets are gonna burn if we don't do something soon
    And senorita 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 big enough for all the pain in the world
    Love's the only house big enough for all the pain Writer/s: BUZZ CASON, TOM DOUGLAS
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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