No Place Like Home

Faith: Here is the place I was telling you about. There's a room and a bathroom down the hall.

Phoenix: Is this a joke? There's needles in the street! I tell you I really am appalled.

Faith: I know that it's not much, but it's all that I could find, Go on--they're saving you a space.

Phoenix: How can I keep my babies safe 'n sound? With the rats and the filth, it's a disgrace!

Faith: Please try...

Phoenix: I can't try anymore.

Faith: to understand.

Phoenix: Can't stand being poor!

Faith: I want...

Phoenix: Want my old life back again!

Faith: to lend a hand

Phoenix: Hand over all the pain.

Phoenix: If this is it, I suppose we'll have to stay. Even though it somehow seems so cruel.

Faith: I know in my heart there should be a better way, But I'm not the one who made the rules.

Phoenix: It's just so damn hard to get through every day, I don't even know where to begin.

Faith: Tomorrow we'll try to figure out a plan, But for now, you need to go on in.

Phoenix: Please try...

Faith: I try to do some good.

Phoenix: to understand.

Faith: Take a stand where I should.

Phoenix: Don't want...

Faith: I want to fix it quick.

Phoenix: to need a hand.

Faith: Hand-outs never do the trick.

Chorus (duet)

This is no place like home,

Oh, there's no place like home.

Yes, there's no place like home for me.

Phoenix: So you'll be back, and it's only for a while? Well, alright, we'll stay here for today.

Faith: (aside) How could she know there's nowhere else for her to go? She's not buying it but she's the one who'll pay.

Phoenix: (aside) My life's become a twisted, dirty rag, That I keep in a plastic garbage bag. This is so far from the way my life began. I'm not even sure of who I am.

Duet: You struggle because there must be a better way. Though in your heart you know you have to stay.

Chorus