In the birth announcements   On the fourteenth page of the small town daily news   It read Lilah Thompson had a baby boy   Six pounds at 10:02      But they didn't list the father   He was carefully ignored   No mention of the scuffle in the corridor   But the questions still got asked      At the nurse's station he was close enough   To hear her call his name   He said, "It isn't fair, but if he knows I'm here   Her dad will go insane"      "If there's something you can do about it   Would you try?   I just want to hear our baby cry   Even if it's through the glass"      Oh, once in awhile when the odds are against love   And all the events of the heart are on trial   If somebody gives and leaves the door open   To the power of hope and the will to forgive love lives      Three suitcases and a baby seat   And their lives were in a car   Stealing off to the city   Where they both believed      They could make it if they worked real hard   Three weeks later they were out of that cheap motel   Having dinner at the Taco Bell   When he gave her the ring      Oh, once in awhile when the odds are against love   And all the events of the heart are on trial   If somebody gives and leaves the door open   To the power of hope and the will to forgive love lives      When the preacher said, "If anyone objects   Speak now or hold your peace"   Every eye in the church turned to watch the man   Who rose up from his seat      But when he said   "I'm sorry for the things I didn't understand   Can I give you to this man"   Everybody cried      Oh, once in awhile when the odds are against love   And all the events of the heart are on trial   If somebody gives and leaves the door open   To the power of hope and the will to forgive love lives, love lives