Love Child Lyrics - Love Child - Diana Ross & The Supremes

You think that I don't feel love 

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, rundown 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, is worth the pain of waiting 

We'll only end up hating the child we may be creating 

Love child, never meant to be 

Love child, by society 

Love child, always second best 

Love child, diff'rent from the rest 

Hold on, whoa 

I started school in a worn, torn, dress that somebody threw out 

I knew the way it was to always live in doubt 

To be without the simple things 

So afraid my friends could see the guilt in me 

Don't think that I don't need you 

Don't think I don't want to please you 

No child of mine'll be bearing the name of shame I've been wearin'