Love Child

Tenement slum

(Ooh, ahhh)

You think that I don't feel love (I'll always love you)

But what I feel for you is real love

In other's eyes I see reflected (I'll always love you)

A hurt, scorned, rejected (Love you)

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 (Tenement slum)

My father left, he never even married mom (Ooh, ooh, ooh)

I shared the guilt my mama knew

So afraid that others knew I had no name (Ooh, ahh)

This love we're contemplatin' (I'll always love you)

Is worth the pain of waitin'

We'll only end up hatin' (I'll always love you)

The child we may be creatin' (Love you)

Love child, never meant to be

Love child, (scorned by) society

Love child, always second best

Love child, (different from) different from the rest

Hold on, hold on, just a little bit longer

(Mmm, baby)

Hold on, hold on, just a little bit longer

(Mmm, baby)

I started school, in a worn, torn

Dress that somebody threw out (Somebody threw out)

I knew the way it felt to always live in doubt (Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)

To be without the simple things

So afraid my friends would see the guilt in me (Ooh, ahh)

Don't think that I don't need you (I'll always love you)

Don't think I don't wanna please you

No child of mine'll be bearing (I'll always love you)

The name of shame I've been wearing (Love you)

(Love child), Love child

Never quite as good

Afraid, ashamed

(Hold on) Misunderstood

(Just a little bit longer, love child) But I'll always love you

(Hold on) Always love you

(Just a little bit longer, love child) I'll always love you

(Hold on) Always love you

(Just a little bit longer, love child) Love child, ooh

(Hold on) Hold on

(Just a little bit longer) Just a little bit longer

(Love child) Love child, wait

(Just a little bit longer) Just a little bit longer

(Hold on) Hold on

(Just a little bit longer, love child) Hey, hey

Oh baby

I'll always love you

(Hold on) I'll always, I'll always

(Just a little bit longer) I'll always love you

Love child