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 hurtle      His peers shed tears his senior year when he got murdered   Now Alberto was your average day student   A student participated in class, never came late   And never true and his family was picture perfect      His older sister was prom queen   His dad a decorator vet from Vietnam scene   His mother was Dear Abby, an ordinary house wife   Like clock would always have dinner on the table at five      But Alberto had a monster, he kept under his bed   And 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 would wave his hand      When he would wave to her, she never though anything of it   And just shoved it in the closet until the day the word dripped out   Like leaky faucet, Alberto was homosexual, I ain't have nothing against it   But little Ronny Johnson and all his football player friends      Did they always picking bad calling him fag and such, and such   And couldn't wait to get to gym and really bust his nuts?   The gym teacher never cared he'd join in on the action   Make silly gestures and compare him to Michael Jackson      Alberto couldn't take it, he just stopped showing up   And whenever he walked the malls, he just felt like throwing up   And at night he would cry and cry, and ask God, why?   Like God, why the fuck I had to be born this way?      God would reply, "Son you got to show them your more then just gay"   See, he had dreams of being a track star until the night   The gay jokes went way to far Ronny 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, accepted was all deception   And all unprotected it was a play rite a scam to get him in   The right place verbally degrade him and rearrange his pretty face      The plan would go swiftly, they started calling him Sissy   When plus turned into fifty they beat him until he was dizzy   Now, Alberto lie in blood while his peers look on him in fear   He took his last breath and passed away his senior year      Needless to say it was one big tragedy, and how was Ronny   Gonna explain it to his family while they were on vacation?   Taking in sights he got wasted killed a kid that night   Don't be a saver, but hate the way they do      Just utilize the gifts god gave you   I knew this girl named Maria right and talented   With aspirations to be a big superstar what a great idea   Until she fell off and started listening to her peers      Oh dear, now, Maria was your typically obnoxious analytical   Head strong rebel flipping off the principles single mother   Home structure she looked at the baby brother while the moms work   Two jobs just to buy supper pops was a struggling musician      Troubled man, juggling heroin addiction, he overdosed   And left a notice of eviction and cradle record in the kitchen   And a little angel with a keen sense of sound who saw silence   In the record she found and she would stay up late at night      Reciting songs to herself in the pale moonlight   Writing wrongs that her pops made promise to mom   She would never go the same route turns out, Karie Ann had other plans   Her inter man Ronny, most popular, second best to nobody      Homecoming queen vs. ugly duckling and the story ends the same way   Okay, Ronny?s parents went away for a couple of days   And told him no drinking, what the fuck was they thinking?   Maria was oblivious that her boyfriend had already been invited      So, when Karie Ann asked, she got all excited like   Damn now, I've got something to look forward to   And so she thought, Maria kindly accepted   She was finally accepted, except it was all bullshit      Now pay attention, Karie Ann hated Maria   'Cause she could sing and 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 lay in blood   And she had no idea Alberto passed away and she got hooked   Her senior year, needless to say it was 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   Karie Ann died in a crash leaving the funeral