Promises in the Soil South Hunter

Intro

(Oh oh)

(Oh oh)

Gate is open

Let the truth come in

Chorus

Oh South Sudan land we call our own

You promised no war child but the seed is sown

Young hands hold a rifle at fourteen years old

Others fall in the street while the gold is sold

This is the gate I'm standing at watching pain

How many more break before we break the strain

Verse 1

They signed the papers and raised flags high

(Up high)

Said no more tears or hearing children cry

(No more cry)

Free sons of the soil suffering is done

(Is done)

But freedom came with gunfire nights never won

(Never won)

Chorus

Oh South Sudan land we call our own

You promised no war child but the seed is sown

Young hands hold a rifle at fourteen years old

Others fall in the street while the gold is sold

This is the gate I'm standing at watching pain

How many more break before we break the strain

Verse 2

I heard the promise echo peace is coming

(Wait and see)

But children grow too fast and they aren't free

(Not free)

Dreams turn to warnings words I won't speak

(Don't speak)

Watching boys become soldiers while the nation stays weak

(Stay weak)

Bridge

So let this song be the gate that won't stay shut

(Won't be still)

Let truth walk through like rain across the cut

(On the land)

Asking leaders to be fathers not just men of oil

(Be fathers)

A nation fearing its children is hitting the soil

(Falling down)

Chorus

Oh South Sudan land we call our own

You promised no war child but the seed is sown

Young hands hold a rifle at fourteen years old

Others fall in the street while the gold is sold

This is the gate I'm standing at watching pain

How many more break before we break the strain

Chorus

Oh South Sudan oh land of my father's cry

(Oh oh)

You said no more war child but we're born to die

(No more)

The promise rots in papers that the leaders keep

(So deep)

Will we see the freedom that the ancestors signed

(We wait)

Keep the promise

Heal the children

Guns become a plow

The gate stands still

Now