The Promise Lyrics

The Promise lyrics

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 a train the newspaperman rode
down to
the southern lands
to find out about a child long gone
turned into a
lightning man.

Chorus:
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!"

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
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

Chorus

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
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