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, she could 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, "Fag" 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 fuck'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      Don't be a slave and behave the way they do   Just utilize the gifts that God gave you   Don't be a slave and behave the way they do   Just utilize the gifts that God gave you   Don't be a slave and behave the way they do   Just utilize the gifts that God gave you      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   Analytical 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 heroin 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   Okay, Ronnie's parents went away for a couple of days   And told him, "No drinking"   What the fuck 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   She was finally accepted, except it was all bullshit      Not pay attention   Carrie Anne hated Maria 'cause she could sing   So she scored a bag of heroin 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