(Marge Barton - Freed McRae)



We're well known in every honky tonk in town

Not a night goes by that we don't make the rounds

People wonder why we choose to live this way

Why don't they ever stay at home I hear them say.



But home is where the hurt is

'Cause love doesn't live there anymore

Home is where the hurt is

That's why we don't stay at home much anymore.



--- Instrumental ---



What was once our happy home has come to be

A place to fuss and fight and disagree

Our lonely house with wall to wall regret

And these bright lights somehow help us to forget.



'Cause home is where the hurt is

'Cause love doesn't live there anymore

Home is where the hurt is

That's why we don't stay at home much anymore.



That's why we don't stay at home much anymore...