Faces in the Hall - Gym Class Heroes, Partick Stump

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 for 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

And instead of lettin 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 nuttin 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 nothin 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 compare him to Micheal Jackson

Alberto couldn’t take it he just stopped showin up

And whenever he walked them halls he just felt like throwin up

And at night, he would cry and cry and ask «God why?»

Like «God, why in the fuck I had to be born this way?»

God would reply, «Son you gotta show 'em you’re more than gay»

(Gotta show 'em you’re more than gay.)

See he had dreams to be a track star

Until the 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 him all unprotected

It was a plan Ronnie had scammed to get him in the right place

Verbally degrade him and rearrange his pretty face

The plan would go swiftly, they started callin 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 it to his family

While they were on vacation takin 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

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 listenin to her peers — oh dear!

Now Maria was your typical obnoxious analytical

Headstrong rebel flippin off the principal

Single mother home structure, she looked after baby brother

While moms worked two jobs just to buy supper

Pops was a strugglin musician, troubled man

Jugglin 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 solace in the records she found

And she would stay up late at night

Recitin songs to herself under pale moonlight

Rightin wrongs that her pops made

Promised her mom she would 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 drinkin — what the fuck was they thinkin?

Maria was oblivious that her boyfriend had already been invited

So when Carrie Anne asked, she got all excited

Like «Damn, now I got somethin to look forward to»

Or so she thought

Maria kindly accepted, she was finally accepted

Except it was all bullshit, now 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 gettin 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 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 leavin the funeral