#1. 
Bm You think that I don't feel love,
C But what I feel for you is real love.
Am In other's eyes I see reflected,
FE a hurt, scorned, rejected.
 CHORUS: 
AmG Love child, never meant to be.
FE Love child, born in poverty.
AmG Love child, never meant to be.
FE Love child, take a look at me.
 #2. 
AmGDAm I started my life in an old, cold, rundown tenement slum.
GDAm My father left, he never even married Mom.
AmC I shared the guilt my Mama knew,
DFE so afraid that others knew I had no name.
 CHORUS:#2. 
Bm This love we're contemplatin',
C Is worth the pain of waitin'.
Am We'll only end up hatin',
FE The child we may be creatin'.
AmG Love child, never meant to be.
FE Love child, scorned by society.
AmG Love child, always second best.
FE Love child, different from the rest.
AmGD Hold on...Mm, baby.
AmGD Hold on...Mm, baby.
 #2. 
AmGD I started school in a worn, torn dress that
Am somebody threw out.
GDAm I knew the way it felt, to always live in doubt,
AmC to be without the simple things,
DFE so afraid my friends would see...the guilt in me.
Bm Don't think that I don't need ya,
C Don't think I don't wanna please ya.
Am But no child of mine'll be bearin',
FE the name of shame I've been wearin'.
AmG Love child, never quite as good,
FE afraid, ashamed, misunderstood.
 ADD: 
AmGFE But I'll always love you....I'll always love you.(x3).