Unmarried Mother lyrics

Sitting in the waiting room

of the Department of Social Security

waiting for her name to be called out

so that she may secure their charity,

she never thought that love could end at all like this.

It was never so in books.

A year ago and she was such a different girl:

grammar school, respectable qualifications.

She studied courses academic

with the best from university,

but the subject she most needed to succeed in

has brought misery.

Why ever did she never stop to think?

But then love's not quite like that.

Who ever can she turn to now?

Parents have turned their back on her,

disgrace to the family.

And so, surrounded by the weak

and those in need of our society,

she sits alone and waits,

rejected by the rules of our propriety.

How ever could we let her fall like this,

so gentle and so young?

Whatever do we really care about?

Heaven knows. I'm sure I don't.

Won't somebody tell me?