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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 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
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
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This song scares me a lot. The first time I was listening to it, it wasn't really that bad, ya know, typical faint. But then, when i looked at the lyrics, it really started to scare me. It's about a lifeguard, who dives into the pool to save a child that is fake drowning. It really hit home because I am a seventeen year old lifeguard. Pretty freaky shit...
corrections: ""now i'm paralysed while they just move to make amends" ... you know, irony?
I can relate to this song alot. I am in sorta the same situation, being paralyzed ins't great and just listening to this song made me cry alot and cope with my disability. Now I am fine and perfectly happy. Now when I hear this song, I become happy that I am not the only one out there that is like that due to a horrible accident.
It is a newspaper article transformed into a song about a lifeguard who in attempt to save the life of a child faking the drowning paralyzes himself. it is another twist on the "boy who cried wolf" stroies applied to real life, with tragic endings.
This songs holds a superior beauty, at least to me. Its got the chilling aura and morbid tone that makes one sad. You pity the person that its about, and half wonder if its got truth behind it. Regardless Im glad to find artists who ponder some topic aside from romance and drugs.
When I listen to this song, I realize that my problems aren't as bad as they seem to be. It makes me respect my good health.
Joelindsay, the guy isn't a lifeguard. He was a regular guy.. that's why it was such a big deal for him to "break the elemental line"...
Otherwise he would have just been doing his job.
..This is such a wonderful song, makes me feel depressed, but you gotta love that synth sound..
this song is amazing. when i saw them live, they had two large screens in the background with water on them... it was sobering.
Is there a reason he wrote this song...? or was it just written at random?