The Faint Ballad Of A Paralysed Citizen lyrics

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 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.