If You Don't Get It At Home - Greg Brown

If you don’t get it at home you’re going to go looking

If you don’t get it at home you’re going to go looking

If you don’t get it at home

The need for love won’t leave you alone

If you don’t get it at home you’re going to go looking

Children they don’t need a lot of stuff

Children sure do need a lot of love

They need love to give them pride

To make them feel real good inside

If they don’t get it at home they’re going to go looking

'cause…

Lovers got to feel it real and strong

One kiss can mean more than making it all night long

With no kiss and no embrace

You get to feeling out of place

If you don’t get it at home you’ll go looking

'cause…

It ain’t down at the bottom of a jug

And it ain’t in the broke-down palace of drugs

It’s right there in our hearts

That’s where we gotta start

If we don’t get it at home we’ll go looking

As the branch is bent so shall it grow

That might be true but even so

A strong wind of real love

Will straighten us right back up

And we might find a place our heart is welcome

But…