In the birth announcements on the fourteeth 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 nurses' 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"   CHORUS   ***Oh,   Once in while   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 were they believed   They could make it if they worked real hard   Three weeks later they were out of that cheap motel   Having dinner at the Toco Bell   When he gave her the ring      ***CHORUS***      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      ***CHORUS***      Love Lives