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The Promise - Johnny Clegg & Savuka

Electric chair didn't burn a hair

And the newspaperman asked why

And while the warden explain in great detail

The newsman looked in the sky

I'm sure he said if you look a little deeper

For something in his life

We could understand the reason why

He reached out for a knife

Oooh what happened to the promise

Oooh what happened to the one we knew

So onto a train the newspaperman rode

Down to the southern lands

To find out about a child long gone

Turned into a lightning man

Oooh what happened to the promise

Oooh what happened to the heart so true

Some of them make it through she said

Some of them never do and one of them

Got lost in time that child of mine

Oh I really loved that child of mine

Arriving in a country town

With a notepad in his hand

He spoke to the mother and the father

And a friend and a teacher and a preacher man

They all recalled a regular boy chewing gim

And playing in the sand

Nothing could explain how he became

A lonely lightning man

Oooh what happened to the promise

Oooh what happened to the one we knew

And when the coffin came

On the southbound train

And the old folks shuffled by

The one they came to bury

Was not very heavy just a child lost in time

Oooh what happened to the promise

Oooh what happened to the one we knew

Oooh what happened to the promise

Oooh what happened to the heart so true

Some of them make it through she said

Some of them never do and one of them

Got lost in time that child of mine

Oh I loved that child of mine

Lost in time

What happens to the clear blue eye

When it enters the forest

Does anybody know where the little one goes

What happens to the child in time

Some of them make it through

Some of them never do

Some of lost and some of saved

Some of them find their way

Oooh hold on to the promise

Oooh hold on to the promise

We're going to make it through my baby

We're going to make it through my little darling

We're going to make it through my baby

We're going to make it through my little darling

We're going to make it through my baby

We're going to make it through my little darling

We're going to make it through my baby

We're going to make it through my little darling