Love's The Only House

                              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   Chorus   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   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   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   Repeat Chorus