American Songs - Love's the Only House lyrics
I was standing in the grocery store line
The one they marked express
When this woman came though 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 everyday
And every mornin' 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
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 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
An' 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 could 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
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 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 pains gotta go someplace...
So come on down to my house
Don't ya 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
