Ballad Of A Paralysed Citizen

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 judgement call./ dive- i arced my to 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 try 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.