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 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

Category:

Music

Tags:

• The
• Faint
• Ballad
• of
• Paralysed
• Citizen
• Danse
• Macabre

[AutumninWonderland]

I used this song as an example in my SAT essay today :D

[thescriven]

check out the rollerblading video "Mindgame Words". this song is used in Dustin Latimer's second section and it is fucking badass

[freddieroller]

saw em at the Music Box in los angeles in '03 when they toured for danse macabre. i'm way too cool.

[toast213]

Dustin Latimer's section in Words part 2 video introduced me to this song...must skate to it....

[uliseslag]

I love the remix to this song.I Can't find it on here but it's totally epic, with cellos and violins and shit. Fucking awesome.

[scroomboes]

I can't get enough of this.

[willrod42]

the original Dubstep :)

[AutumninWonderland]

@x89codered89x

I totally BS'd it. But it was basically about how our choices can affect us and I couldn't think about anything else but this song >.<

[x89codered89x]

@AutumninWonderland what was the example about. I'm curious ...

[conquest2010]

absolutely incredible music. so much to learn from it. great work, guys.

[Randonmaster123]

Damn dude this is a pretty depressing song but still a good one.