Love Child - Diana Ross & The Supremes

Tenement slum

You think that I don't feel love
But what I feel for you is real love
In other's eyes I see reflected
A hurt, scorned, rejected

    Love child, never meant to be
    Love child, born in poverty
    Love child, never meant to be
    Love child, take a look at me

    I started my life in an old, cold run down tenement slum
    My father left, he never even married mom
    I shared the guilt my mama knew
    So afraid that others knew I had no name

    This love we're contemplating
    Isn't worth the pain of waiting
    We'll only end up hating
    The child we maybe creating

    Love child, never meant to be
    Love child, (scorned by) society
    Love child, always second best
    Love child, different from the rest

    Mm, baby (hold on, hold on, just a little bit)
    Mm, baby (hold on, hold on, just a little bit)
    I started school, in a worn, torn dress that somebody threw out
    I knew the way it felt, to always live in doubt
    To be without the simple things
    Sop afraid my friends would see the guilt in me

    Don't think that I don't need you
    Don't think I don't wanna please you
    No child of mine 'll be bearing
    The name of shame I've been wearing

    Love child, love child, never quite as good
    Afraid, ashamed, misunderstood

    But I'll always love you
    I'll always love you
    I'll always love you
    I'll always love you
    I'll always love you
    I'll always love you