Faint, The - Ballad Of The Paralysed Citizen lyrics

I am paralysed & things could
change for you as well
you are not so bad off now,
you can move anything you need.
I am not this way because of an
emergency I caused.
At seventeen I was 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 am paralysed while they just
move to make amends
the family & the kid
who faked the drowning incident,
I have felt the hand of god & that is
the last thing that I felt.
And all below my back,
I have 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.

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