Love Child - Album Version / Stereo

Song Love Child - Album Version / Stereo
Artist Diana Ross
Album The Complete Motown Singles - Vol. 8: 1968

Lyrics

[00:19.26] You think that I don't feel love
[00:22.37] But what I feel for you is real love
[00:24.24] In other's eyes I see reflected
[00:26.14] A hurt, scorned, rejected
[00:28.30] Love child, never meant to be
[00:33.21] Love child, born in poverty
[00:38.23] Love child, never meant to be
[00:42.47] Love child, take a look at me
[00:47.43] I started my life in an old, cold run down tenement slum
[00:53.36] My father left, he never even married mom
[00:57.32] I shared the guilt my mama knew
[00:59.45] So afraid that others knew I had no name
[01:03.46] This love we're contemplating
[01:06.30] Is worth the pain of waiting
[01:08.38] We'll only end up hating
[01:11.44] The child we maybe creating
[01:13.49] Love child, never meant to be
[01:17.52] Love child, (scorned by) society
[01:22.37] Love child, always second best
[01:26.57] Love child, different from the rest
[01:31.16] Mm, baby (hold on, hold on, just a little bit)
[01:36.10] Mm, baby (hold on, hold on, just a little bit)
[01:40.28] I started school, in a worn, torn dress that somebody threw out
[01:46.59] I knew the way it felt, to always live in doubt
[01:50.12] To be without the simple things
[01:53.25] So I afraid my friends would see the guilt in me
[01:57.14] Don't think that I don't need you
[01:59.39] Don't think I don't wanna please you
[02:01.33] No child of mine will be bearing
[02:04.39] The name of shame I've been wearing
[02:06.51] Love child, love child, never quite as good
[02:10.56] Afraid, ashamed, misunderstood
[02:14.38] But I'll always love you
[02:19.20] I'll always love you
[02:21.48] I'll always love you
[02:28.39] I'll always love you
[02:34.41] I'll always love you
[02:37.56] I'll always love you