Home Is Where The Hurt Is Lyrics - Mel Tillis

[ with Sue York ] 

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 our hurt is cause love doesn't live there anymore 

Yes home is where our hurt is that's why we don't stay at home much anymore 

[ steel ] 

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 

But home is where our hurt is...