I knew this kid named Alberto
Funny style cat

And his girl looked like a turtle
Not Lisa Turtle, just a turtle
High school track

He ran the hurdle
His peers shed tears senior year when he got murdered
Now Alberto was your average A student

Participated in class,
Never came late
And never truant

His family was picture perfect
His older sister was prom queen
His dad a decorated vet from the Vietnam team

His mother was Dear Abby,
An ordinary house wife
Like clockwork, always had dinner on the table at 5

But Alberto had a monster he kept under his bed
Instead of letting it out,
He just got a girlfriend instead

She knew something was funny
Shecould tell by his behavior
Or the way he flamboyantly shook his hand

When he would wave to her
She thought nothing of it
And just shoved it in the closet

Until the day that word dripped out like leaky faucet
Alberto was homosexual
I ain't have nothing against it

But little Ronnie Johnson and all his football player friends did
They'd always pick and nag
Call him "!@$)" and such and such

And couldn't wait to get to gym so they could really bust his nuts
The gym teacher never cared
He'd just join in on the action

He'd make silly gestures
And compared him to Micheal Jackson
Alberto couldn't take it

He'd just stop showing up and whenever he walked them halls
He just felt like throwin' up
And night he would cry and cry and ask "God why?"

Like "God, why the $#&@'d I have to be born this way?"
God would reply, "Son, you've gotta show 'em you're more than gay"
Cause he had dreams to be a track star

Until that warm April night
Them gay jokes went way too far
Ronnie begged for his forgiveness

And invited him to a party
Cause his parents went away
And left him plenty of Bacardi

Alberto kindly accepted
He was finally accepted
Except it was all deception

And left them all unprotected
It was a plan Ronnie had scammed
To get him in the right place

Verbally degrade and rearrange his pretty face
The plan would go swiftly
They started calling him sissy

One punch turned into fifty
They beat him till he was dizzy
Now Alberto lie in blood

While his peers look on in fear
He took his last breath
And passed away his senior year


Needless to say
It was one big tragedy

And how was Ronnie gonna explain to his family,
While they were on vacation taking in sights
He got wasted and killed a kid that night


Don't be a slave and behave the way they do,
Just utilize the gifts that God gave you [x4]


I knew this girl named Maria
Bright and talented
With aspirations to be a
Big superstar

What a great idea
Until she fell off and started to listening to her peers
Oh dear!
Now Maria was your typical obnoxious
!@%(ytical head strong rebel

Flippin' off the principal
Single mother home structure
She looked after baby brother
While mom worked two jobs
Just to buy supper

Pops was a struggling musician
Troubled man,
Juggling family and !@(% addiction
He overdosed and left a notice of eviction
And a crate of records on the table in the kitchen

And a little angel with a keen sense of sound
Who saw silence in the records she found
And she would stay up late at night
Reciting songs to herself
Under pale moonlight
Righting wrongs that her pops made,

Promised her mom she'd never go that same route
Turns out
Carrie Anne had other plans
Her and her man Ronnie most popular,
Second best to nobody
Homecoming queen versus ugly duckling
And the story ends the same way

Ok, Ronnie's parents went away for a couple of days
And told him "No Drinking"
What the $#&@ were they thinking?
Maria was oblivious that her boyfriend had already been invited
So when Carrie Anne asked
She got all excited
Like "damn now I got something to look forward to"

Or so she thought
Maria kindly accepted,
Except it was all bull%#@!
Not pay attention,
Carrie Anne hated Maria cause she could sing
So she scored a bag of !@(%
But the craziest thing was

Maria never touched drugs, she did that night
And when her man was getting beat
She was nowhere in sight
Now her boyfriend lie in blood
And she had no idea
Alberto passed away and she got hooked her senior year
Needless to say

It was one one big tragedy
And I hate to break it but
It doesn't end happily
A warm day in May,
The sky was so beautiful
Carrie Anne died in a crash leaving the funeral