Ballad Of A Paralysed Citizen - The Faint

I’m paralysed and things could change for you as well

you’re not so bad off now, you can move anything you need.

I’m not this way because of an emergency I caused

at seventeen a guard perched above the chlorine floor

when I saw a hand raise up from just beneath the air,

a frantic move for help, I made an instant judgment call.

dive- I arced my feet to dive, I broke the elemental line

to save a child.

dive- into the shallow floor

the bottom scraped my palms and compressed my spine.

now i’m paralysed while they just hope to make amends

the family and the kid who faked the drowning incident,

i’ve felt the hand of god and that’s the last thing that I felt

at all below my back, i’ve lost the faith I thought I had

dive- I arced my feet to dive, I broke the elemental line

to save a child.

dive- into the shallow floor

the bottom scraped my palms and compressed my spine.