"Love 's

 the only house

big enough 

for all the pain

in the world."

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

But I just get more behind with 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 want what you can't have

And baby you can't have me now

I gave me heart to another

Yeah, I'm a mother and he's a father

And we've 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, and 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 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 some place

So come on down to my house

(Ours :-)

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

Don't you know that

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, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah

More relevant today

than when it first came out...

Truth.