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 movin' so fast
I just get more behind with every day
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 walkin' 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 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
And 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 walkin' around
In a culture of darkness
Livin' together alone
All I can
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 señorita can't quit cryin
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 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
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