Love's The Only House

[Verse 1] 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 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 [Chorus] 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 [Verse 2] He was walking by the other day and I said Hey baby, how you've 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 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 [Chorus] [Verse 3] 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 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 [Chorus] [Bridge] 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 [Verse 4] Somewhere 'cross the parking lot some band's playing out of tune City streets are going burn if we don't do something soon And señorita 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 And she said I want to buy a little carton of milk But I don't have any money I said hey I'll cover you honey Because the pain's got to go somewhere Yeah the pain's got to go someplace So come on down to my house Don't you know that [Chorus][x2]