美國鄉村樂歌姬［瑪蒂娜．麥布萊］──鄉村流行曲──［Loves the Only House／愛是唯一的家］

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 dont 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 cant believe my lifes turned out this way
All I could say was

Loves the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Loves 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 shes 4 years old
And shes got her daddys little grin

And you only want what you cant have
And baby you cant have me now
I gave me heart to another
Yeah, Im a mother and hes a father
And weve got each other
And I found out the hard way that

Loves the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Loves 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

Loves the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Loves the only house big enough for all the pain

And I cant explain it and I cant understand
But Ill come down and get my hands dirty and together well make a stand

Somewhere cross the parking lot some bands playin out of tune
City streets are gonna burn if we dont do something soon
And senorita cant quit cryin, babys 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 dont have any money
I said, hey, Ill cover you, honey

Cause the pains gotta go somewhere
Yeah, the pains gotta go some place
So come on down to my house
Dont you know that

Loves the only house big enough for all the pain in the world
Loves the only house big enough for all the pain

Dont you know that

Loves the only house (big enough for all the pain in the world)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Loves the only house big enough for all the pain) yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah

１９９９年９月，３３歲的美國鄉村樂紅星瑪蒂娜．麥布萊（Reba McEntire）推出第五張大碟［Emotion／情感］（RCA Nashville唱片公司）．

由瑪蒂娜，Paul Worley製作．樂評良好．

專輯走鄉村流行路線。

由於有五首歌曲打入鄉村榜前十名，［Evolution／演化］銷售成功，登上美國告示牌副榜──鄉村專輯榜＃３（1999年榜#33／2000#17／2001#64），流行專輯榜＃１９（2000年榜#185），

取得白金唱片（１００萬張＋）．

加拿大鄉村專輯榜＃５，加拿大專輯榜＃６６，取得白金唱片（１０萬張＋）

首支主打［I Love You］是馬蒂娜事業最知名歌曲之一．

第二主打是１９９９年１１月發行的［Loves the Only House／愛是唯一的家］，

由Buzz Cason和Tom Douglas譜寫，歌曲描述一個女人如何看待不同的人並注意到他們所出現的問題。

Paul Worley，瑪蒂娜將其製作成一首鄉村流行曲，

節奏輕快，麥布萊演繹穩定，帶有一種旁觀者的超然．

［Loves the Only House］登上美國告示牌副榜──鄉村歌曲榜＃３（2000年榜#16）．

告示牌單曲榜＃４２，

加拿大鄉村歌曲榜＃２

２０００年瑪蒂娜二度獲得鄉村音樂協會獎（CMA）的“年度女歌手”獎

MV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzM_lxnzi64

Audio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVJn9yZXjIk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U567TSNo7rc

Live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en2BKwUwEt0

Live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdX5Wvdy2Gg