Love's the Only House

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
 But 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 me heart to another
 Yeah, I'm a mother and he's a father
 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
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 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
 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
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 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
 She said, 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 some place
 So come on down to my house
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 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)
 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
 (Love's the only house big enough for all the pain) yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
 Yeah