"Love Child"

I just heard this song on the oldies station in Texarkana. One of the lyrics really hit me out of the blue as an anachronism. I have outlined it in bold.

This link will tell you why.

Pam Sawyer/R. Dean Taylor/Frank Wilson/Deke Richards)

Tenement slum

You think that I don't feel love
But 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

I started my life in an old, cold run down tenement slum
My father left, he never even married mom
I shared the guilt my mama knew
So afraid that others knew I had no name

This love we're contemplating
Is worth the pain of waiting
We'll only end up hating
The child we maybe creating

Love child, never meant to be
Love child, (scorned by) society
Love child, always second best
Love child, different from the rest

Mm, baby (hold on, hold on, just a little bit)
Mm, baby (hold on, hold on, just a little bit)
I started school, in a worn, torn, dress that 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 you
Don't think I don't wanna please you
No child of mine 'll 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
I'll always love you
I'll always love you
I'll always love you
I'll always love you
I'll always love you

Today "father only marries mom" about half the time. Furthermore, it is often mom's idea not to marry the sperm donor slugs formerly known as fathers. And let's rename this song to reflect what modern-day reproduction is all about. This song with its updated lyrics should be called "Lust Child." And there is no more shame, "Lust Child," because we have abolished shame in this arena of life. We now reserve all the shame once devoted to single mothers to the homosexuals.

Promiscuous heterosexual lust is godly.