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Martina McBride - Love's the Only House Lyrics

Artist: Martina McBride

Album: Miscellaneous

Genre: Country

  • Songwriters: Buzz Cason, Tom Douglas

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're a family
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, 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
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


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  • Anonymous

    This song ALWAYS makes me cry - it's bittersweet but mostly sweet. Thanks, Martina!

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