Tenement slum   Ooh, ooh, ooh....aaaahhh      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      Started my life   In a old, cold, run-down tenement slum (tenement slum)   My father left he never even married mama   I shared the guilt my mama knew   So afraid that others knew I had no name      This love we're contemplatin'   Is worth the pain of waitin'   We'll only end up hatin'   The child we may be creatin'       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) Mmmmm baby   (Hold on hold on just a little bit longer) Mmmmm 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   To be without the simple things   So afraid my friends would see the guilt in me      Don't think that I don't need ya   Don't think I don't want to please ya   But 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   Always love you      I'll always love you   Always love you