Love's The Only House

was standing in the grocery store line
The one they marked EXPRESS
When this woman came thru with about 25 things
And I said "don't you know that more is less"
She said "this world is moving so fast, I'm just getting 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 can say was Love's the only house that's 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
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 got each other and I found out the hard way that
Love's the only house that's big enough for all the pain in the world
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain
You drive 3 miles from all this prosperity down across the river and you see a ghetto there
We got vhildren walking 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 walking around in a culture of darkness, living together alone
All I can say is love's the only house that's 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 band's playing out of tune
City streets are going to burn
If we don't do something soon
Senorita can't quit crying - baby's due now any day
Don Juan left - got sick of trying - no one there to show him the way
She came down to the grocery store
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 got to go somewhere
Yeah, the pain's gotta go someplace
So come on down to my house
Don't you know love's the only house that's big enough for all the pain in the world
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain
Don't you know love's the only house that's big enough for all the pain in the world
Love's the only house big enough for all the pain