The Promise Lyrics - 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" 

Ooh, what happened to the promise? 

Ooh, what happened to the one we knew? 

So, onto a a train the newspaperman rode 

Down to the southern lands 

To find out about a child long gone 

Turned into a lightning man 

Ooh, what happened to the promise? 

Ooh, what happened to the one we knew? 

Ooh, what happened to the promise? 

Ooh, 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" 

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 gum 

And playing in the sand 

Nothing could explain how he became 

A lonely lightning man 

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 

Ooh, what happened to the promise? 

Ooh, what happened to the one we knew? 

Ooh, what happened to the promise? 

Ooh, what happened to the heart so true 

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 them are lost and saved 

Some of them find their way 

Ooh, hold on to the promise 

We're going to make it through my baby 

We're going to make it through, my little darling