American Songs - Love's the Only House lyrics

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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