Love Child
Composer(s): Pam Sawyer - Deke Richards - R. Dean Taylor - Frank Wilson
First release by: Diana Ross & The Supremes - 1968
Covered by multiple other artists



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 
Is 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 want to please you 
No child of mine will 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