Ballad of a Paralysed Citizen

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
 At all below 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