Love's The Only House

Martina McBride

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

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 wanted what you can't have
And baby, you can't have me now
I gave me heart to another
Yeah, I'm a mother, he's a father 
We're a family, 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
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, all I can 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
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, 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 someplace
So come on down to my house

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, oh

(Don't you know that love's the only house)
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)