Loves The Only House

<br>(tom douglas/buzz cason)<br><br><br><br>I was standing in the grocery store line<br><br>The one they marked express<br><br>When this woman came through with about 25 things<br><br>And I said dont you know that more is less<br><br>She said this world is moving so fast<br><br>But I just get more behind with every day<br><br>And every morning when I make my coffee<br><br>I cant believe my lifes turned out this way<br><br>All I could say was<br><br><br><br>Loves the only house big enough for all the pain in the world<br><br>Loves the only house big enough for all the pain<br><br><br><br>He was walking by the other day and I said<br><br>Hey baby how you been? <br><br>Yeah I got me a little girl now and shes 4 years old<br><br>And shes got her daddys little grin<br><br>And you only want what you cant have<br><br>And baby you cant have me now<br><br>I gave me heart to another<br><br>Yeah Im a mother and hes a father<br><br>And weve got each other<br><br>And I found out the hard way that<br><br><br><br>Loves the only house big enough for all the pain in the world<br><br>Loves the only house big enough for all the pain<br><br><br><br>You drive three miles from all this prosperity<br><br>Down across the river and you see a ghetto there<br><br>And we got children walking around with guns<br><br>And they got knives with drugs and pain to spare<br><br>And here I am in my clean, white shirt<br><br>With a little money in my pocket and a nice warm home<br><br>And we got teenagers walkin around in a culture of darkness<br><br>Livin together alone, and all I can<br><br><br><br>Loves the only house big enough for all the pain in the world<br><br>Loves the only house big enough for all the pain<br><br><br><br>And I cant explain it and I cant understand<br><br>But Ill come down and get my hands dirty and together well make a stand<br><br>Somewhere cross the parking lot some bands playin out of tune<br><br>City streets are gonna burn if we dont do something soon<br><br>And senorita cant quit cryin, babys due now any day<br><br>Don juan left, got sick of tryin<br><br>No one there to show him the way she came down to the grocery store and<br><br>She said i, I wanna buy a little carton of milk but I dont have any money<br><br>I said hey Ill cover you honey cause the pains gotta go somewhere<br><br>Yeah the pains gotta go someplace<br><br>So come on down to my house<br><br>Dont you know that<br><br><br><br>Loves the only house big enough for all the pain in the world<br><br>Loves the only house big enough for all the pain