Ballad Of A Paralysed Citizen Lyrics - Singles - The Faint

I'm paralyzed 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 

To 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 paralyzed 

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 

They'd all blew up my back 

I've lost the faith I thought I had 

To 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