Riding the city bus on the way to school   Me and my two sisters and all the ridicule   The older girls on the back of the bus would laugh and call us names   They'd talk about our hair, our clothes and call us Homemade      See the not so good old days   Could make you weak or make you brave      And I've never been the most beautiful   No, I ain't never been the most popular   But it's amazing what love can do   It's amazing what a little love can do      Every thought and action is like a boomerang   What goes around will come back, baby, so careful what you say   And the little ugly ducklings are swans that got away   'Cause Cinderella stories, they still happen every day      See the not so good old days   Could make you weak or make you brave      And I've never been the most beautiful   No, I ain't never been the most popular   But it's amazing what love can do   It's amazing what a little love can do      See I bumped into a stranger just the other day   She said, "Can you spare a dollar, sista? My man, he ain't got paid"   And so I gave her what I had, then I recognized her face   She was the leader of the girls who used to call us Homemade      See the not so good old days   Could make you weak or make you brave and then I told her      See I have never been the most beautiful   And don't really care that I ain't never been the most popular   'Cause it's amazing what love will do   Now hang on, it's amazing what   Homemade love, what Homemade love will do      Yeah, mama said, "This is what Homemade love would do"