Love's the Only House

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ReleasedNovember 15, 1999
Length5:13
"Love's the Only House"
Single by Martina McBride
from the album Emotion
ReleasedNovember 15, 1999
GenreCountry
Length5:13
LabelRCA Nashville
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Martina McBride singles chronology
"I Love You"
(1999)
"Love's the Only House"
(1999)
"There You Are"
(2000)

"Love's the Only House" is a song written by Buzz Cason and Tom Douglas, and recorded by American country music artist Martina McBride. It was released in November 1999 as the second single from her album Emotion.

This up-tempo song that describes how a woman sees various people (such as woman in grocery store and a previous lover) and notices the problems that they have developed. The woman describes to the people she sees in each situation that love is the only place where they can release their pain and emotions. McBride said of the song's topic, "I love what it says and I love the fact that it urges us to take responsibility for our fellow human beings. Sometimes we all get so jaded (myself included) that we forget what compassion feels like."[1]

McBride said that she came to record the song after discussing Collin Raye's single "Little Rock" with producer Paul Worley, who also produced that song. Worley called the publisher of "Love's the Only House", co-written by "Little Rock" writer Tom Douglas, and Worley requested that the publisher bring over the song despite the publisher saying that it was "more of a guy's song". McBride then got together with Douglas and changed some of the lines to fit a female perspective better.[1]

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