Gym Class Heroes - Faces in the Hall lyrics

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
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 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