Tonalidad: A minor•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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I knew this
kid named Alberto
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Funny style cat
And his girl looked like a turtle
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Not Lisa Turtle, just a turtle
High school track
He ran the hurdle
His peers shed tears senior year
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when he got murdered
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Now Al berto was
your average A student
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Participated in class,
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Never came late
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And never truant
His family was picture perfect
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His older sister was prom queen
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His dad a decorated vet
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from the Vietnam team
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His mother was Dear Abby,
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An ordinary house wife
Like clockwork,
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always had dinner on the table at 5
But Alberto had a monster
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he kept under his bed
Instead of letting it out,
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He just got a girlfriend instead
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She knew something was funny
Shecould tell by his behavior
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Or the way he flamboyantly
shook his hand
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When he would wave to her
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She thought nothing of it
And just shoved it in the closet
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Until the day that word dripped
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out like leaky faucet
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Alberto was homosexual
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I ain't have nothing against it
But little Ronnie Johnson and all his football
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player friends did
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They'd always pick and nag
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Call him "fag" and such
and such
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And couldn't wait to get to gym so
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they could really bust his nuts
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The gym teacher never cared
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He'd just join in on the action
He'd make silly gestures
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And compared him to
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Micheal Jackson
Alberto couldn't take it
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He'd just stop showing up and
whenever he walked them halls
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He just felt like throwin' up
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And night he would cry and cry
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and ask "God why?"
Like "God, why the fuck'd I have
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to be born this way?"
God would reply, "Son,
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you've gotta show 'em you're more than gay"
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Cause he had dreams to be a track star
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Until that warm April night
Them gay jokes went way too far
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Ronnie begged for his forgiveness
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And invited him to a party
Cause his parents went away
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And left him plenty of Bacardi
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Alberto kindly accepted
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He was finally accepted
Except it was all deception
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And left them all unprotected
It was a plan Ronnie had scammed
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To get him in the right place
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Verbally degrade and re
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arrange his pretty face
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The plan would go swiftly
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They started calling him sissy
One punch turned into fifty
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They beat him till he was dizzy
Now Alberto lie in blood
While his peers look on in fear
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He took his last breath
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And passed away his senior year
Verse 2
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Needless to say
It was one big tragedy
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And how was Ronnie gonna
explain to his family,
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While they were on vacation taking in sights
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He got wasted and killed a kid that night
Verse 3
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Don't be a slave and behave
the way they do,
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Just utilize the gifts that
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God gave you [x4]
Verse 4
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I knew this girl named Maria
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Bright and talented
With aspirations to be a
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Big superstar
What a great idea
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Until she fell off and started
to listening to her peers
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Oh dear!
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Now Maria was your typical obnoxious
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Analytical head strong rebel
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Flippin' off the principal
Single mother home structure
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She looked after baby brother
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While mom worked two jobs
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Just to buy supper
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Pops was a struggling musician
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Juggling family and heroin
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He overdosed and left a notice of eviction
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And a crate of records on
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the table in the kitchen
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And a little angel with a keen sense of sound
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Who saw silence in the records she found
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And she would stay up late at night
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Reciting songs to herself
Under pale moonlight
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Righting wrongs that
her pops made,
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Promised her mom she'd
never go that same route
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Turns out
Carrie Anne had other plans
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Her and her man Ronnie
most popular,
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Second best to nobody
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Homecoming queen versus ugly duckling
And the story ends the same way
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Ok, Ronnie's parents went
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away for a couple of days
And told him "No Drinking"
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What the fuck were they thinking?
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Maria was oblivious that her boyfriend
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had already been invited
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So when Carrie Anne asked
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She got all excited
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Like "damn now I got something
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to look forward to"
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Or so she thought
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Maria kindly accepted,
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Except it was all bullshit
Not pay attention,
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Carrie Anne hated Mari
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a cause she could sing
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So she scored a bag of heroin
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But the craziest thing was
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Maria never touched drugs,
she did that night
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And when her man was getting beat
She was nowhere in sight
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Now her boyfriend lie in blood
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And she had no idea
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Alberto passed away and she
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got hooked her senior year
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Needless to say
It was one one big tragedy
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An d I hate to break it but
It doesn't end happily
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A warm day in May,
The sky was so beautiful
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Carrie Anne died in a crash
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